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Getting the beers in as they lounge under the African sun, these guests at a luxury four-star resort seem not to have a care in the world.

But they are British detectives sent to Ghana in pursuit of the suspect in the murder of EastEnders star Sian Blake and her two children – and the images of them soaking up the sun and dipping into the pool are certain to inflame the already intense criticism of the police investigation into the case.

Just a day earlier, their colleagues in the Metropolitan Police had been criticised in court for blunders that could have delayed the extradition of Ms Blake’s partner Arthur Simpson-Kent to Britain – and could even have led to him being freed.