A plea hearing for a Suffolk man accused of murdering his wife and 12-year-old daughter has been adjourned again due to his mobility issues.

Peter Nash, of Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield, who is in custody and uses a walking frame, was due to have been brought to Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday, February 9, to enter pleas to the murder charges.

However, he wasn’t brought to court because of difficulties accommodating his mobility issues.

East Anglian Daily Times: Peter Nash is accused of murderPeter Nash is accused of murder (Image: CHARLOTTE BOND)

Judge Martyn Levett said he was "frustrated" by the problems and adjourned the case until February 21 to allow him to investigate alternative venues for the plea hearing where someone with a disability could be accommodated, or alternatively that “something is manufactured here that would enable the defendant to come to this court”.

The judge said all parties were “frustrated by the difficulties” and set an administrative hearing for February 21 for next steps to be addressed.

Christopher Paxton KC, for Nash, said his client wanted to attend the plea hearing and it wasn’t a case of him refusing to come to court.

Nash was arrested and charged with murder after police gained entry to a house on Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield on September 8 where 12-year-old Louise Nash and her 44-year-old mother Jillu Nash were found dead inside.

A Home Office post-mortem examination found that Mrs Nash’s cause of death was pressure on the neck while Louise had died from a stab wound to the abdomen.

In a tribute to the mother and daughter following their deaths, a spokesperson for the family said: “We, the family of Jillu and Louise Nash, have been struck by utter devastation, despair and pain by the tragic way the beautiful little lives of a young mother and a child have ended and from whom we are now separated forever."