19/11/2003

Police find three dead at house near Thatcham

Police have found three bodies at a house in Slanting Hill Hermitage near Thatcham in Berkshire.

Armed officers were dispatched to the area when a woman contacted police at 7.10pm yesterday claiming she had seen an armed man. The man was believed to be in his late forties.

A police spokesperson said that the area around a house in Salting Hill was sealed off and firearms officers were deployed along with police from stations Pangbourne and Newbury.

At around 1.45am this morning armed officers entered the house. They discovered the body of a man and a woman in the house, both in their late forties. The body of another male, aged in his mid to late teens, was found outside the house.

Police said that all appeared to have died from gunshot wounds and that a firearm had been recovered from the house.

Formal identifications will be carried out in due course, but police confirmed that they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

Part of Slating Hill remained cordoned off today while a forensic examination of the scene is carried out.

(SP)

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