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Suspect linked to Deptford double murder found dead | |
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A "significant suspect" in the investigation into the double murder of a convicted sex offender and his daughter is dead, detectives have said. | |
Nathaniel Henry, 37, was linked by forensic evidence to the murders of Noel Brown, 69, and Marie Brown, 41, who were found in a flat on New Butt Lane, Deptford, on 4 December. | |
Mr Henry was reported missing on 12 December and was found dead in Southwark on New Year's Eve. | |
His death was deemed "non-suspicious". | His death was deemed "non-suspicious". |
Scotland Yard said search warrants were carried out at properties in the Southwark and Lewisham areas in the week beginning 30 April. | Scotland Yard said search warrants were carried out at properties in the Southwark and Lewisham areas in the week beginning 30 April. |
A post-mortem examination, held last year, established father and daughter both died of "compression" to the neck. | |
Ms Brown is thought to have been strangled to death after disturbing her father's killer when she went to check on him on 2 December. | |
Mr Brown - who was convicted of a sex offence and jailed in 1999 - had been strangled at some time between 30 November and 4 December, detectives have said previously. | |
He was dismembered and his body parts removed from the flat over the course of several visits. | |
Det Ch Insp Simon Harding previously said the suspect was thought to have visited the flat at least four times as he dismembered Mr Brown's body. | |
"In my 27 years of policing, I have not seen anything quite like this," he said. |