Four bodies, including those of two young girls, have been found at a house in Hampshire.

Police were called to Provost Street in the New Forest village of Fordingbridge at 11.20 a.m. yesterday.

There they discovered the body of a man, a woman and the girls, aged one and two, Hampshire Police said.

A woman who found the bodies of her two tiny granddaughters and their parents screamed “all my babies are dead” as she ran from the house where they died.

The toddlers’ father is believed to have slit the children’s throats and their mother’s before hanging himself.

A cordon was set up around the scene which lies in a pretty street of terraced and semi-detached houses, some with riverside views.

One local resident, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s pretty horrific”.

Acting Superintendent Gary Cooper, of Hampshire police, would not confirm that it was the children’s grandmother who found the bodies but said it was a member of the family. Emergency staff sent to the house found the woman and the two children with stab wounds and the man hanged, the local ambulance service said.

Facebook page tells of pride in family

Andrew Case wrote of his pride in his family on his Facebook page.

He summed up his life in a brief biography: “I am 32, I got married in 2000 and have been with my wife, Vicki, for about 15 years. We have two beautiful daughters, Phoebe (two-years-and-a-half) and Nereya (one).”

Pictures posted on his page during Easter this year show him playing and sharing chocolate eggs with his laughing daughters.

On July 18 he wrote about his family’s upcoming trip to the seaside, quoting Cliff Richard’s song Summer Holiday.

He said: “Weymouth, here we come...! We’re going where the sun shines brightly, we are going where the sea is blue, seen it in the movies, let’s see if it’s true...”

Mr Case was planning to run a marathon in September in aid of new living quarters for the parents of premature babies looked after at Salisbury Hospital.

His Facebook page also reveals that he left Ringwood School in Hampshire in 1993, and worked as an HGV delivery driver for Doccombe European from May 2007 onwards.

Mr Case said his favourite quotation was: “Sucess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obsticals which he has overcome.”

But other posts on Facebook point to darker preoccupations.

On June 8 he wrote: “Time is equal to life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life... FIN.”