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Post mortems are to be held on a man who died after driving into a tree, and a woman thought to be his wife, found murdered at their home. | |
Police initially attended a road crash near West Chiltington, West Sussex, on Sunday night, after a man driving a Smart car struck a tree. | |
The 66-year-old man was taken to Worthing Hospital where he later died. | |
Police inquiries led to his home, about half a mile from the crash, where the body of a 63-year-old woman was found. | Police inquiries led to his home, about half a mile from the crash, where the body of a 63-year-old woman was found. |
Officers had to force their way into the house after noticing a car in the driveway but receiving no reply. | |
Police found the woman in a pool of blood and are treating her death as murder. | |
Officers do not believe anyone else is involved. | |
Neither bodies are expected to be formally identified until Thursday. | |
Detective Chief Inspector Adam Hibbert of Sussex Police's Major Crime Branch is leading the investigation, codenamed Operation Armoy. |