Manhunt for lodger as mother and daughter found dead

AN INTERNATIONAL manhunt is underway for the lodger of one of two women found dead at a house in Merseyside. He is believed to have fled to France.

Police are searching for 51-year-old Barry Morrow after the bodies of Avon lady Angela Holgate, 54, described as his on-off girlfriend, and her 75-year-old mother, Alice Huyton, were discovered at the home he shared with Holgate in Southport.

The bodies were found on Saturday evening and The Daily Telegraph reports that both had been asphyxiated. Police have launched a double murder inquiry.

The paper says that Holgate's mother was worried about her daughter as she had not heard from her for several days. She rang Morrow, who invited her round for dinner on Friday. Her body and that of her daughter were found the following day after the alarm was raised when she failed to return home.

Police believe Morrow caught a ferry from Dover to Calais on Saturday night. He is said to have contacts in France and Spain and may have been driving Holgate's white Citroen car, which was missing from the house. As the BBC puts it: "It is thought he may have information vital to the investigation."

Neighbours of Holgate said that Morrow had been lodging there since earlier in the year. One told the BBC he was "very powerfully built". ·