Cambridgeshire shooting – news: Victims were father and son as police probe ‘custody battle’

Forensic officers have brought a body out of a house in The Row, Sutton, Cambridgeshire, into a private ambulance.

Police officers held up a black tarpaulin to shield the view.

Detective chief superintendent Jon Hutchinson, of Cambridgeshire Police, said that an “active line of inquiry” is “understanding whether that firearm was legally owned”.

He said that “at this stage we’re not looking for any further people in relation” to the incident.

The detective said that “a line of inquiry that we’re focusing on is that those people who are in custody are known to the deceased and have had recent contact with them”.

He said forensic work was going on to establish if the same weapon was used at both locations.

The two people arrested at a hotel just outside Cambridge were “from the local area but we’re trying to identify where they have been staying in recent days”, he said.

He added that the “initial arrests have been made for conspiracy to murder - that is likely to change as information develops in the hours ahead”.

A private ambulance has parked in front of the victim’s house in The Row, Sutton, Cambridgeshire.

It follows police officers extending the cordoned-off area.

One officer laid flowers on the drive outside the house.

Floral tributes have begun to pile up near a police cordon at Meridian Close in Bluntisham, where a 32-year-old man was found dead inside a home.

His 57-year-old father was found dead inside a property around six miles away in The Row, Sutton.

One of the tributes left in Bluntisham said: “Josh, you shined such a bright light over everyone around you. It was impossible not to smile when you’re around. You’re going to be missed so much.”

Another read: “Rest easy, Josh”, adding: “Your son was a very lucky boy to have a dad like you.

“Your bubbly personality will be dearly missed.”

Forensic officers have carried a body out of a house in The Row, Sutton, into a private ambulance.

Police officers held up a black tarpaulin to shield the view.

A friend and neighbour of the 57-year-old victim in Sutton, near Ely, gave his name as Gary Dunmore.

Stuart, who declined to give his last name, said he knew Gary “really well”.

He said he sent a WhatsApp message to Gary after hearing “gunshots suspiciously close” on Wednesday night.

“(The message) isn’t going to be responded to, I think,” he said.

Paying tribute to the dead man, Stuart said: “He was a legend. He was so friendly, happy, smiley - just the perfect neighbour.

“If he heard you pant in the garden... he would pop his head over the fence and go, ‘You got the right tools mate?’.

“He couldn’t do any more for any person. There was not a malicious bone in his body.

“What tribute could you pay to somebody who could never meet you without the biggest smile?

“There is no way that he would have deserved this at all.”

Police have yet to identify the victim.

A neighbour of the older man, Gary Dunmore, said he also knew his son, Josh.

“He was just such a passionate guy,” he said.

Asked what the pair did for work, Stuart said Gary was a builder and that Josh also worked in “the general trade”.

The three people in custody are thought to be linked to a wider continuing family issue and are are known to each other, police say.

Ch Supt Jon Hutchinson said the two addresses had not been visited by police previously and there was no indication that the crime could have been anticipated by detectives.

Mr Hutchinson said: “This type of crime is extremely rare, and especially this extreme level of violence.

“It is rare in Cambridge to have firearm discharges and to have two in close succession is almost unprecedented in this area.”

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