The flaws of a loving father: depression and desperation led Greg Hutchings to destroy the child he so adored A GLIMPSE into the room which 35-year-old Greg Hutchings shared with his four-year-old daughter Eeva in his mother's Pottsville home reveals a normal suburban scene. However, past the colourful hanging children's jackets and card which Eeva made for her dad, sits a container of anti-anxiety drugs. They are a grim hint of the darkness behind the discovery of the bodies of the father and daughter - just a short walk from the front door of 55-year-old Diana Hutchings' first-storey flat. They are a clue to the effect the tug-of-love over the custody of the four-year-old had on Hutchings. The packet of Escitalopram was on a table when Ms Hutchings opened her doors to The Daily Telegraph while the search for the missing father and daughter was still under way last week. His family admitted Hutchings suffered depression Investigators are yet to ­determine how Hutchings and his bubbly blonde daughter Eeva Anna-Leena Dorendahl-Hutchings died, but what is certain is that tumult and heartache dominated four-year-old Eeva's short life. Before Hutchings disappeared with Eeva on January 11 he said in signed affidavits that he feared his estranged wife Michelle Dorendahl. "She goes into irrational rages when she does not get what she wants," he wrote. He expressed fears his ­­­ex-partner planned to take Eeva to Finland and a Finnish passport was issued in Eeva's name in 2011 - but courts had imposed restrictions on both parents. Courts banned either parent from taking Eeva to "electronic music 'lifestyle' festivals" or to countries not party to The Hague convention on child abduction. Both parents were also ­ordered not to "denigrate" the other in front of Eeva. The court orders only ­hinted at the bitter fight over Eeva's company. In applications to the Federal Circuit Court last year, Dorendahl expressed fears Hutchings was "delaying ­return to disappear with child," and "it will be hard to locate ­father as he is unemployed, has no assets, lives with his father and is behaving erratically." Her fears proved prophetic. After Eeva returned from a trip to Peru with her mother last year, Hutchings said: "I had grave concerns about my child travelling to South America ... I do not see any justifiable reason to put my four-year-old child at risk when there is a safe alternative of Eeva being at home." Many who knew the family believe the tragic double-death was the result of a desperate ­father who cracked. The owner of the White Jade restaurant, and Mr Hutchings' former boss, told The Daily Telegraph: "He never turned up because of the custody fight ... we had to let him go (after two months)." On the day he went missing with Eeva, Dorendahl went to the White Jade. She called police from the restaurant. Police yesterday said formal identification of the bodies would take "considerable time" and they are treating the deaths as suspicious. THE mother of a man whose body was found alongside his four-year-old daughter's said she knew in her heart her son and granddaughter were dead, but a police search yesterday confirmed her fears. He was due to hand back the preschooler to his estranged wife and Eeva's mother, Michelle Dorendahl, at a nearby beach, but failed to do so, sparking an international police search. Two bodies were found yesterday in sand dunes not far from Ms Hutchings' Pottsville home. Although badly decomposed and yet to be formally identified, police believe they are that of the 35-year-old former chef and abattoir worker and his daughter, who was at the centre of a bitter custody dispute. "We are shocked, we need to process it and to show respect for two beautiful people," Ms Hutchings said. We were trying to help find them, but now we just need the police to investigate. She was a beautiful girl and he was a beautiful man as well. Tweed Detective Superintendent Stuart Wilkins said police renewed their search of the area yesterday morning after receiving credible information last week. The area had already been searched by air a fortnight ago, but a more thorough search was ordered with the State Emergency Service called in to comb the area just north of where the pair was last sighted on the Pottsville Rd. At 10am, the bodies of a man and child were found side by side under a tree in the dunes surrounded by coastal scrub by an SES volunteer. A crime scene was established and the bodies remained in situ while forensic police gathered evidence for the coroner. "We believe the bodies have been there a long time," Det Supt Wilkins said, adding that no note was found at the scene and that it was too early to say if the case was a murder-suicide. Mr Hutchings had told Ms Dorendahl he was too unwell from a gastric bug to drive Eeva the three hours north to Ms Dorendahl's Nambour home in Queensland, instead arranging a handover in Pottsville on January 11. When he did not show up, the alarm was raised.