A MAN has been charged with the murders of four people in Derbyshire.

Damien Bendall of Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh faces four counts of murder. The 31-year-old will appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court later today.

This comes during a police investigation into the deaths of 35-year-old Terri Harris and her children John Paul, 13, and Lacey, 11, and their friend Connie Gent, who was also 11.

They died in a house in Killamarsh on Sunday.

Mr Bendall used to live on Cranmore Avenue in Park South.