Detectives have named a mother and daughter who were found dead at a home in Salford.
Greater Manchester Police say the tragic deaths of Martina Karos, 40, and severely disabled Eleni Edwards, 8, were not being treated as suspicious.
Their bodies were discovered when officers responded to a call for a concern for welfare on Radford Street in Salford, shortly after 10.30am on Monday.
Tributes flooded into the mother and daughter with one friend calling Ms Karos “lovely and bubbly”.
She wrote on Facebook: “I am so sorry for the pain you have suffered some of which I can totally relate with. From the moment we met at the swimming pool you became ‘Auntie Martina’.
“You did absolutely everything you could for your beautiful girl.
“You never gave up the fight and to hear this devastating news today has absolutely broken me.
“I wish I was there. I wish I could have been your shoulder to cry on and I could have helped you more.
“ I’m so sorry life went this way for you. I hope you are both in a happier place. We love you so much.”
A fundraiser raising money for equipment for Eleni claimed she had Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and suffered from regular seizures.
A neighbour, who did not want to give her name, said Ms Karos did not work and spent most of her time at home looking after her daughter.
“I didn’t see that much of her, I was at work all day,” the neighbour said. “All I could say was she was a loving and devoted mother to the little girl.
“Elani was severely disabled and hugely dependant on her mum. She had a walking frame and she would walk with her mum up and down the street outside their house.
“A bus would come to take the girl to a special school each day.”
The neighbour added that the mother, Martina, was “quite a closed person” and was last seen on Friday putting rubbish in the bin and mowing the lawn.
“She would talk to most people, but she was very up and down in her moods. Sometimes she would smile and say hello and other times blank you,” she said.
Recalling the moment police discovered their bodies, she said: “A police van arrived outside the house with lights flashing. I came downstairs to have a look then a policewoman knocked on the door and asked if I had seen my neighbour.
“Then the fire brigade came and got in at the back of the house, breaking the glass.
“After that the police came and asked us to go back inside.”
