Murder inquiry as two bodies found

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every day. He was in his 50s and disabled, walking with a stick and he had no use in his left side.

“He had lots of visitors at the flat.

“He had friends who came around and looked after him when he was in no fit state to look after himself.

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“Some young girls would go round as well – I’m not sure if they were friends of his helpers.”

Neighbours gathered in the street in a large council estate on the eastern edge of Burnley yesterday as forensics officers scoured the property and studied the flat’s entrance.

A neighbour who wanted to remain anonymous said: “When I got back from work the street was chaos with police cars and everything.”

A Lancashire Police spokesman said: “The deaths are being treated as suspicious and an investigation is now under way.

“It is a double murder investigation. No arrests have been made.”

The force expects to issue further information today.