Pensioners found dead in home may have died 18 months ago, cops say

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property.Gardai officers leading an investigation into their mysterious deaths now believe the pair may have died as long ago as November 2020, the Irish Mirror reports.READ MORE: ‘Dead body’ found in search for missing mum turns out to be abandoned sex dollNick and Hilary are understood to originally be from the UK and had told friends in the area that they would be soon going on holiday before their lengthy disappearance.Locals in the tight-knit village have since expressed their shock at the grisly find, with many having assumed the couple — who "kept to themselves" — had moved away some time ago.A local source said: "Some neighbours thought they had moved away but sadly that wasn’t the case."The couple very much kept to themselves and not many would have known them personally but only on hello terms if they passed them walking or that sort of thing.”Commenting on the find, another said: “It’s such a shock for everyone.

It seems their bodies were there for a long time.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.“They told people they were emigrating to France or somewhere in late 2020 so people were under the assumption they had moved away”.One Cloneen resident said the incident had left the village with a total population of 60 in "disbelief, floored and shell-shocked", with many expressing surprise it could have happened so close to them.A post-mortem into the two bodies began shortly after they were discovered.Investigators are said to be keeping an open mind on the circumstances of the two deaths, with the likelihood of foul play understood to be low.