UPDATE: |Police issue update after girl, 10, and dad both killed in horror caravan fire on first day of Easter holiday News

Lee Baker and his 10-year-old daughter Esme Baker died

Police have issued an update after a 10-year-old girl and her dad were both tragically killed in a caravan fire on the first day of the Easter Holidays on Saturday (April 5).

Two bodies were found after the horror blaze at the Goldenbeach Holiday Park in Roman Bank in Ingoldmells in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police say it’s believed it was 48-year-old father Lee Baker and his 10-year-old daughter Esme Baker, both from the Nottingham area, with formal identification due to take place.

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A fundraising page has since been set up to raise money for their family. It described the pair as ‘two peas in a pod’ who were ‘both happy go lucky people who loved life’.

Paying tribute, a member of Lee and Esme’s family said: “Lee and Esme were excited to be spending the first weekend of the holidays together. We are all utterly devastated at what’s happened. This loss is incomprehensible at the moment, and we ask for people to give us space to process this utterly heartbreaking loss.”

In an update, Lincolnshire Police said investigations into the fatal blaze continued overnight and on Sunday (April 6), and that detectives are ‘close to a working hypothesis’ about what happened, but that the intensity of the blaze has made getting answers ‘incredibly challenging’.

A Lincolnshire Police spokesperson said: “Our investigations alongside those of our Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue colleagues continued well into the night to establish the cause of the blaze, and these investigations remain on-going today.

“Lincolnshire Police offer our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Lee and Esme. Our thoughts are with them at this incredibly sad time.”

As Senior Investigating Officer, Det Insp Lee Nixon, said: “We believe we might be close to arriving at a working hypothesis. We are working hard to validate the facts available to us to be able to provide answers for the family and loved ones of those who were very tragically taken by this fire. Yet the evident intensity of the fire has made this task incredibly challenging.”

Dan Moss, area manager for prevention and protection at Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the family at this time.

“Our Fire Investigation Team is working with colleagues from Lincolnshire Police, and a full investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.

“Once investigations are complete, local fire crews and our community fire safety team will be on hand to talk to people in the area and address any fire safety concerns they may have, at what will be an upsetting time.”