Chinese graduates 'had mystery lodger'
Chinese graduates 'had mystery lodger'
Two Chinese graduates brutally murdered in their Newcastle flat had an unknown lodger, it has been revealed.Police have appealed for the Chinese man who was sub-letting a room with the couple to come forward.
The room was let after it was advertised on local Chinese website www.ncl.cssauk.org.uk.
The website displayed two photographs of the flat together with a contact mobile telephone number for Mr Yang.
Det Supt Steve Wade, who is leading the murder inquiry, said: "We now believe that an unidentified male rented a room from the couple on or about August 1 this year.
"On the August 3 or 4 Mr Yang routinely contacted his mother in China via telephone and informed her that he had taken on a new lodger."
He added: "Mr Yang informed his mother that the new lodger was a student and that he came from the Jinzhou area of the northern seaport city Dalian.
Xi Zhou and her boyfriend Zhen Xing Yang, both 25, were attacked in their flat in Croydon Rd with a knife and another sharp weapon and suffered severe head injuries.
Mr Yang had been tortured before he was hacked and stabbed to death, and the couple's cat was drowned by their killers.
Internet users on UK-based Mandarin websites had identified Mr Yang as a recruitment agent for a gambling racket which relied on the results of live Premier League football games being shown a couple of minutes later in China to beat th
Two Chinese graduates brutally murdered in their Newcastle flat had an unknown lodger, it has been revealed.Police have appealed for the Chinese man who was sub-letting a room with the couple to come forward.The room was let after it was advertised on local Chinese website www.ncl.cssauk.org.uk.
The website displayed two photographs of the flat together with a contact mobile telephone number for Mr Yang.
Det Supt Steve Wade, who is leading the murder inquiry, said: "We now believe that an unidentified male rented a room from the couple on or about August 1 this year.
"On the August 3 or 4 Mr Yang routinely contacted his mother in China via telephone and informed her that he had taken on a new lodger."
He added: "Mr Yang informed his mother that the new lodger was a student and that he came from the Jinzhou area of the northern seaport city Dalian.
Xi Zhou and her boyfriend Zhen Xing Yang, both 25, were attacked in their flat in Croydon Rd with a knife and another sharp weapon and suffered severe head injuries.
Mr Yang had been tortured before he was hacked and stabbed to death, and the couple's cat was drowned by their killers.
Internet users on UK-based Mandarin websites had identified Mr Yang as a recruitment agent for a gambling racket which relied on the results of live Premier League football games being shown a couple of minutes later in China to beat th
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