POLICE hunting the killer of a former North-East woman are trying to piece together her last movements.

Lorraine Turner, 37, originally of Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, was found dead with head injuries by her son, Jordan, ten, and daughter, Jasmine, eight.

The children - nephew and niece of the late international footballer David Rocastle - discovered their mother lying in a pool of blood at her home in Norwich, on Saturday.

Detectives launched a murder hunt after a Home Office pathologist established she had died from head injuries.

Yesterday, officers appealed to anyone in Norwich who knew the former pupil of Durham High School for Girls to get in touch so they could find out where she had been in the days before her death.

A spokeswoman said: "We are trying to build up a picture of Lorraine's last days. We are talking to her friends and people who knew her, to see which places she used to go to."

Ms Turner grew up in Walker Lane, Newton Aycliffe, before leaving the North-East when she married Ian Jolly, a BBC TV producer, when she was in her early twenties.

She kept in regular contact with her father, Peter Turner, who lived at the family home in Newton Aycliffe until his death in July 1999.

Ms Turner, who lived alone with her children, trained to be a journalist at Darlington College of Technology.

She had two children with Steve Rocastle, a prison officer and brother of the late Arsenal and England footballer.