Tragic Father and Daughter ‘Had Icy Relationship’

 
A teenage girl who was found dying alongside her wealthy father only recently came out of drug rehab, her friends have revealed.
 
Margaret Pierides had fallen into trouble in recent months – smoking cannabis and ‘doing chemicals’ which affected her, said an unnamed friend, who claimed the father had thrown her out. Relatives also described how she had ‘got in with a bad crowd’ but insisted the family had recently shown signs of reconciliation. Greek-Cypriot Costas Pierides, 48, was found dead at his £800,000 seven-bedroom home in Sible Hedingham, Essex, on Saturday morning.
 
Costas Pietrides was found dead on Saturday morning (Pic: Essex News)
His 16-year-old daughter was airlifted to Colchester General Hospital where she died.
Detectives have so far refused to say how the pair died. Post-mortem examinations were being carried out amid reports they both suffered stab wounds – while police ruled out any use of guns. Margaret is thought to have returned to the family home ‘a few months ago’, after spending time in the Foyer youth hostel in nearby Braintree.
It is also understood the family had just returned from a ‘make or break’ holiday in Greece last week.
 
Margaret’s aunt Susan Bass, 50, yesterday described her as a ‘lovely, happy girl’ who had started a beauty therapy course at college last week. However, Mrs Bass added: ‘Margaret and Costas’ relationship was a bit frosty.
 
‘She’d just got in with a bad crowd in Essex and rebelled a little bit but they were starting to get back on track.
 
‘We are just waiting to get answers about why this happened.
 
‘I’m still in shock. I can’t believe Costas would do something like this.’
 
However, the family appeared to have patched things up because Margaret wrote on her Facebook page on Saturday: ‘What a special girl I am. Well, my dad says so anyway.’ Celestine Adams, whose 18-year-old daughter attended the same school, described Margaret as ‘a wild card – a little troubled, but a lovely girl’.
 
Mrs Adams’ daughter, Kika Willings, insisted: ‘When she went back home she was so happy – she was proper sorting her life out.’ The family appeared together when celebrating a christening the previous weekend and staging a ninth birthday party for Margaret’s sister Androulla on Friday.
Mr Pierides and Margaret’s mother Bernadette Bass owned Tottenham-based company Door 2 Door PTS which supplies equipment to the NHS.