Officers made a gruesome discovery at the home of a woman who contacted the police when a man she met on an online dating app refused to leave.
The woman had no clue that 23-year-old David Iwo had only 24 hours previously battered retired lawyer Martin Decker to death using a hammer after conning his way into the 69-year-old's property.
Liverpool Echo reports that Iwo, who was homeless, had posed as a sex worker online advertising services to gay men - while in actual fact, he had "made the conscious decision" to kill them and steal their money.
It later came to light that the deranged murderer had also tortured and killed up to 30 cats in the Norwich area, which had earned him the nickname of the 'NR3 Cat Killer' before he was arrested
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