DISTRESSED dad Dave Cass phoned his family to say he had murdered his two daughters before killing himself.
He is believed to have killed his two daughters - Izzy aged one and Ellie, aged three - before he hanged himself.
A police investigation was underway today intot he tragedy which happened at scene at Paynes Road MOT garage, Freemantle, Southampton.
The 32-year-old had been living in a caravan at the garage since splitting from the two girls' mother.
He had worked there as a self-employed MOT tester for several years but had handed his notice in to his boss last Friday and was working his notice.
It is understood his distressed partner had raised the alarm, calling 999 when she returned home to find a note from the children's father, telling her he was going to harm them.
The road was immediately closed off from its junction with Waterloo Road while more than a dozen police vans and patrol cars descended on the area just before 7pm.
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