Second arrest made by police following murder of man in Bury St Edmunds as family release photograph of victim

Detectives investigating the murder of a man in Bury St Edmunds have made a second arrest as the victim’s family release photograph of him.

Police were called at 3pm on Tuesday, April 26, by a member of the public who believed a stabbing had taken place at a car park in Harland Court, off Station Hill.

Officers were sent to the area and located a man and a woman within a flat who had both sustained stab wounds. The man, aged in his 40s, was declared deceased shortly after officers arrived.

A Home Office post mortem examination took place yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, April 27, and established multiple stab wounds to have caused his death. Detectives are treating his death as murder.

Pending formal Coroner’s inquest proceedings, police have provisionally identified the deceased as Karl Skoulding, aged 43, from Bury St Edmunds. His next of kin have been informed.

At just after 3.30pm on Tuesday, a 38-year-old man was detained by officers in the vicinity of St John’s Street in Bury St Edmunds, in connection with the incident. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre for questioning.

At Ipswich Magistrates’ Court this morning, Thursday, April 28, detectives made an application for a warrant of further detention and they have been granted an additional 31 hours to question the suspect.

Earlier this morning, at approximately 3.50am, detectives made a second arrest in connection with the incident.

A 17-year-old boy from Ipswich was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to Martlesham Police Investigation Centre for questioning.