A boyfriend shouted ‘no one else will have you’ before killing his girlfriend, another man and himself in a New Year’s Day house fire, it was claimed today.
Police are said to believe the two victims may have been stabbed – and their chief suspect also died in the blaze at the £350,000 property in Kirton, Lincolnshire.
Billy Hicks, 24, has been named today by former colleagues as one of the three killed, according to The Sun.
Detectives were thought to be investigating the theory that a love triangle could have triggered the bloodshed before the blaze took hold from about 3am.
The home was owned by former pub chef Paul Edmunds and his wife Donna, both 54. They are said to have moved to Ilfracombe in Devon last year to run a hotel.
But a source told the Daily Mail that police are investigating whether a suspect found dead in the house was involved in a love triangle with two other victims.
Lincolnshire Police confirmed a 27-year-old woman and two men aged 24 and 32 had died. They are yet to be formally identified and no arrests have been made.
One source named Fabio, 18, whose friend’s relative knew the woman victim, claimed the fire was started by a boyfriend ‘furious that he had been cheated on’.
He said: ‘I’ve heard the guy found out he had been cheated on and went into the house with a jerry can of fuel which he set light to.
‘There was a New Year’s party going on and it was after most people had left that all hell broke loose. He told his girl: ‘No one else will ever have you. I’ll make sure of that’.’
Fabio added that a house guest who jumped to safety told police and a few neighbours about the ‘relationship crisis.’
He said: ‘The guy who started the fire was absolutely mad when he found out hid girlfriend had cheated on him with someone he knew.’