An elderly couple who were found shot dead in their home were only discovered days later when their daughter came to deliver some tragic news
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As reported by the Liverpool Echo, her father's body was found in bed upstairs, under a blue sleeping bag. A probe into the deaths found Leslie, 74, had shot Catherine twice in the left arm and chest before turning the 12 bore double-barrel shotgun on himself. Officers initially feared the couple had died as a result of a noxious substance in the house. However, a more thorough search found blood stains on the wall close to Catherine - and a shotgun was found in the bed beside Leslie. Leslie, a retired gardener, was a registered gun owner. He had also applied for his licence to be renewed on June 1, 2021.
A domestic homicide review, carried out following the double shooting, concluded: "No one could have foreseen that Catherine would be murdered by Leslie, nor that he would take his own life."
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