POLICE today named the victim of an Ipswich murder.The man found dead in a Salisbury Road house was 36-year-old Derek Henderson-Chittock of Springhurst Close, Ipswich.

POLICE today named the victim of an Ipswich murder.

The man found dead in a Salisbury Road house was 36-year-old Derek Henderson-Chittock of Springhurst Close, Ipswich.

A 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, yesterday arrested on suspicion of his murder, were today still in custody at Ipswich police station.

South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court today allowed police to keep them in custody for a further 36 hours, which allows police to continue questioning the pair until the early hours of Saturday.

Police were called to the Salisbury Road house in the early hours of Wednesday following reports that a man had been stabbed.

Mr Henderson-Chittock was dead by the time the ambulance service arrived.