Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma is thought to have fled to Zimbabwe two days before his wife and daughters were found dead.

Police forced entry into their house in Great Denham, Bedfordshire, after Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 42, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, hadn't been seen for several days.

The suspect, who goes by the name Mark, is from Bedford and is a British citizen of Zimbabwean heritage.

Officers believe the 45-year-old flew from London Heathrow to Zimbabwe on Saturday.

Detective Inspector Lee Martin appealed directly to the suspect to hand himself in.

"Unthinkable harm has been caused to those around you," he said.

"Three innocent people have lost their lives in the worst possible circumstances, leaving your relatives and friends devastated."

"We are throwing the full weight of the law behind this investigation. Criminal investigations know no borders," DI Martin added.

"We are actively working with national and intentional agencies to pursue every available line of inquiry to track you down - and we will find you.

"So please do the right thing. Come forward and hand yourself in to local authorities."

Nala's school, Pilgrims Pre Prep in Bedford, called her "a much-loved member of our school community who brought joy to those around her every day".

"Many of our staff had known her since she was just seven months old and had the privilege of watching her grow," said head teacher Jo Webster.

"She was a little ray of sunshine, known for her inquisitive and bubbly nature, her positivity, happiness and her wonderful sense of humour."

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Tshuma is now believed to be in Zimbabwe, but the African country does not appear on a list of the UK's extradition treaty partners.

He owns and runs a property business called Nexus Trove Holdings from his address in Great Denham, according to Companies House.

Most recent filings show that the business had just over £1m in assets at the end of 2024, with the firm, of which he is the sole director, making £48,277 profit that year.

According to Rightmove, the property was bought for £1,270,000 in May 2024, and has a swimming pool, four bedrooms and four bathrooms.

The Kaba family have been given three weeks to challenge the decision.

Firearms officer Martyn Blake shot the 24-year-old in Streatham, south London, in 2022, after Mr Kaba used his car to ram his way out of a police stop.

Mr Blake, also known as NX121, was cleared of murder by a jury at the Old Bailey, but the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) initially said he would face a gross misconduct hearing.

The police watchdog now says the case against NX121 will be dropped because of new rules from the Home Office being applied to misconduct hearings, which reduce the burden of proof for the defendant, bringing disciplinary hearings in line with criminal cases.

This news will come as a relief to firearms-carrying police officers but will frustrate campaigners who feel police accountability is already weighted against them.

Sky News has spent several months with the Met's firearms unit, MO19, for a documentary, titled Firing Point, to be aired later this year.

The police officers, backed by their commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, argue that their judgment on when to open fire happens in the heat of the moment, in split seconds, often when their intelligence tells them the person they are dealing with is dangerous. Yet the process for judging their actions takes years.

Travelling with MO19 officers to high-pressure callouts, we saw first-hand the unpredictability of their working lives and just how often they would be required to deliver first aid skills rather than use their weapons.

We also witnessed officers using restraint when facing a gunman.

These colleagues of Mr Blake said their overriding concern was that simply by doing their job, they could go to prison for the most serious of crimes.

On top of this, by being identified during a trial, criminals - for example, associate gang members of someone they have shot - would be able to track them and their families down to exact revenge.

Laws around identifying officers are also being changed, so that the public would only learn their names on conviction.

Change to 'honestly held belief' defence

The main change is the issue of "honestly held belief", which is a fundamental defence that can be used by anyone in the criminal courts if they killed or harmed someone in a moment when they judged there was a threat to life.

This defence was used by Mr Blake in his trial.

However, for several years, the test has been different for police misconduct hearings. Here, the honest belief must also be "reasonable".

This came from a Supreme Court judgment in July 2023, when judges decided the "civil test" is the "correct" test in a gross misconduct case.

They concluded that the disciplinary process was in part about learning the "reasonableness of mistakes".

They concluded: "Citizens should not feel that unreasonable mistakes by the police are left unchecked or that the police are not held accountable for such mistakes."

This view has been reflected by campaigners who feel that "honestly held belief" is a "get off free card".

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Temi Mwale, who represents Chris Kaba's family, told Sky News: "We already have very little accountability, and they are going to make it so we have close to no chance of ever holding any officer accountable for any action ever again.

"If, for example, there are just a few bad apples, which they love to tell us, surely you would want to have very robust processes to get those people out."

Home Office: Officers allowed to make 'genuine mistakes'

However, the Home Office has argued that police officers dealing with intense situations should be allowed to make "genuine mistakes".

One example given to us by the Met commissioner was someone reaching for a gun under their arm, when they are known to carry a gun and have been told to put their hands up. What if it turned out they didn't have a gun? Is that the officer's fault?

By bringing criminal and misconduct cases to the same level of proof, it streamlines everything, negating the need to have two processes.

The IOPC's director of strategy and police, Andrew Johnson, said of their decision to drop the case against Mr Blake: "We carefully considered the law change and its stated intent to address the perceived unfairness and lack of proportionality of the civil law test.

"We believe this position provides consistency across impacted cases and it is fair to officers who are facing potential dismissal for misconduct, which if it occurred now, would not amount to misconduct under the law."

What everyone can agree on is that, with inquests, criminal trials and gross misconduct hearings, the process takes too long.

Mr Blake's situation has been unresolved for nearly four years. Another case for a firearms officer took a decade to resolve.

The Met commissioner described this as "inhumane". It leaves the lives of officers and victims' families in limbo for far too long.

These are highly charged, consequential questions over how our police are held to account. It is likely the Kaba family will challenge the decision.

The 23-year-old, who entered the tournament ranked 114, beat ninth-seed Cobolli 6-4 7-6 (7/4) 6-0 on Centre Court.

Fery is the first British wildcard to reach the semi-finals at a Grand Slam in the open era, and joins Sir Andy Murray, Tim Henman, Cameron Norrie, and Roger Taylor as home male members of the Wimbledon last-four club. Fery is now the only non-seeded player left in the tournament.

Wildcards are players whose world ranking is not high enough to qualify automatically for The Championships but who are accepted into the main draw by the committee.

Fery's strong run has been a major upset of the tournament, having only two grand slam victories to his name before Wimbledon.

The Briton has quickly become a crowd favourite and secured his victory on Wednesday in front of nearly 15,000 cheering Centre Court spectators and the Queen, who watched on from the royal box.

He defeated former semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov after a five-set thriller over nearly four hours to reach the quarter-final, before making quick work of Cobolli, 24, who was the runner-up at last month's French Open.

Fery's intensity and strong ball-striking appeared to rattle Cobolli, who struggled to break back against the Briton.

Especially in the third set, Fery was in full control, much to the frustration of his Italian opponent, who often looked exasperated when turning to his coaching team.

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Alfie Coleman was just 19 when he was caught in an MI5 sting trying to buy a Makarov semi-automatic pistol, five magazines, and 200 rounds of ammunition, with £3,500 saved from his part-time supermarket job.

The Old Bailey heard he branded some of his former fellow staff and shoppers "race traitors" for having partners who were not white, in a list of people who had "upset him", which featured their number plates.

One entry named a checkout worker, whose husband was mixed race, along with the make and colour of her car, and a description of her as having "short blonde hair with bits of pink in it".

Prosecutors said he believed in an extreme right-wing ideology, which included idolising Adolf Hitler and the likes of Thomas Mair, who murdered the MP Jo Cox in a gun and knife attack in 2016.

A Met Police investigation found Coleman began being radicalised online when he was just 14.

Sentencing Coleman, judge Richard Marks KC said he must be treated as a "dangerous offender", describing his views as "virulently racist".

He told Coleman: "[Giving evidence] you maintained that much of what you had said and the virulently racist views which you expressed were no more than intrusive thoughts and did not represent what you believed in real life.

"It was in effect, although you did not use these words, hyperbole, bravado, fantasy, and you never had any intention to carry out an attack."

Counterterrorism officers said Coleman, from the village of Great Notley, in Essex, was trying to buy automatic weapons, which suggested he planned to carry out a mass shooting, with possible targets including mosques.

He had unwittingly been talking to undercover MI5 agents for months on encrypted messaging apps before he was surrounded by officers armed with Tasers in a Morrisons car park in Stratford on 29 September 2023.

Video footage shows him dropping to his knees and lying flat on the ground being handcuffed in front of shocked shoppers, seconds after he left cash in the front passenger seat footwell of a Land Rover Discovery and collected a holdall from the boot containing the deactivated pistol.

Coleman, now 22, previously pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to possess a prohibited firearm and ammunition, as well as 10 counts of possession of material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

He denied he was plotting a terror attack and a jury failed to reach a verdict on that charge last year after Coleman said he was now "embarrassed" and "cringing" about the views he expressed. However, Coleman was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after a retrial.

He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with a further five years on extended licence.

Commander Helen Flanagan, head of counter terrorism policing London at the Met Police, said: "It is extremely concerning that such a young person was planning to murder innocent members of the public as part of an extreme right wing terrorist plot.

Cmdr Flanagan added: "What is particularly concerning is that Coleman was radicalised online from when he was just 14 years' old, and sadly we're seeing more and more examples of young people and children being drawn into violent extremism and terrorism this way.

"This is why I'm urging parents and carers to make sure that you are aware of what your children are doing online. While it may be difficult, it is vital that you have conversations with them, and if you are still concerned, then contact Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) Early and get in touch, so that they can be steered down a different path before it is too late."

Erin Slane, 19, sent the message after being picked up by Kyle Patrick on 1 September 2024 and as he hit speeds of up to 119mph in his Ford Fiesta ST-3 turbo on a secluded Perthshire road.

Patrick, 23, has now been jailed for eight years over the fatal collision after earlier pleading guilty to causing Ms Slane's death and serious injury to another passenger by dangerous driving while being impaired through consuming alcohol.

He also admitted repeatedly driving at "grossly excessive speeds" on the journey.

At a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh in May, judge Lord Harrower was told Patrick was speeding along the B9099 Luncarty to Stanley road when he lost control of the car and it left the road near the junction with Gowrie Farm at about 2.10am.

The vehicle tumbled down a grass embankment into a field, rolling several times before coming to rest on its roof.

Prosecutor Graeme Jessop KC told the judge that minutes before the crash, Ms Slane had messaged a group of friends, saying: "I may not survive tonight. I'm scared. Kyle is steaming."

Driver called police 40 minutes after crash

Ms Slane was seriously injured and died at the scene, while another female passenger escaped from the wreck with injuries.

Patrick, from Scone in Perthshire, survived and called the police about 40 minutes later. He told them he had crashed, that he was the driver and had been drinking alcohol so "should not have been driving".

Mr Jessop said: "He stated that he had pulled a passenger out of the car - the witness (Ms Slane's friend) - and was so sorry for driving."

The surviving passenger suffered a fractured arm, nine broken ribs, a fractured pelvis and a fractured finger - she has since made a full physical recovery.

As police probed the crash, it was discovered that Patrick had spent the night drinking with friends in Perth city centre before driving to a taxi rank and offering lifts to people waiting in the queue.

He picked up Ms Slane and her friend outside a pub called That Bar at about 1.45am. Ms Slane was sitting in the front and her friend in the back, both wearing seat belts.

Blood alcohol 'three times the legal limit'

The court heard that on the journey Patrick reached a speed of 119mph in a 60mph area before losing control of the vehicle, and that his blood alcohol level was "exceptionally high".

Investigators who took blood from the first offender at 4.30am - two hours and 20 minutes after the incident - found he was more than three times the drink-driving limit at that time.

Patrick was sentenced to eight years in prison at the High Court in Glasgow on Wednesday and was banned from driving for 10 years.

Tony Lenehan KC, representing Patrick, said the defendant felt the "true weight of his remorse".

Lord Harrower said the incident was "no mere lapse of judgment" on Patrick's part and that he had demonstrated a "prolonged and deliberate course of driving at grossly excessive speeds while impaired through alcohol".

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The crash happened two days before Ms Slane's 20th birthday, and she was due to start studying at Napier University later that month.

The judge said: "Erin was 19, about to start university and had her whole life ahead of her."

He said Patrick's actions had brought "terrible devastation" to the family, adding: "No sentence of this court can alleviate their anguish."