Detectives In The North Are Continuing To Investigate A Double-Murder Suicide In Belfast

3 bodies were found in Newtownabbey on Friday night

Cliona O'Dwyer reports:

'Flowers have been left on the lane of a house where two bodies were discovered in Newtownabbey, near Belfast on Friday night.

Police in the North were called to a report of a stabbing at a flat on Derrycoole Way just before 11pm, where a woman was pronounced dead.

They were then called to the grounds of a house on Glenville Road where they found a dead man and as they searched the home the body of another woman was found.

A murder investigation is continuing and they're not looking for anyone else in connection with these deaths.

Detectives believe the man stabbed his mother and girlfriend in a double-murder suicide.'

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