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TWO WOMEN FOUND DEAD Martin Hill and Nigel Gould

Carrick murder inquiry

A murder inquiry was launched today after a mother and daughter were found strangled in a house in Carrickfergus.

The bodies of Kate Curran, in her 50s, and her 32-year-old daughter Angela were discovered in Mrs Curran's Edenvale Avenue home.

Another daughter, Patricia, is recovering from stab wounds after being slashed in the neck and wrists at her Coronation Road home two miles away.

A man - believed to be her estranged husband - was found in bed at the house in Coronation Road.

A man was taken to Whiteabbey hospital under police guard for treatment.

He was discharged after two hours back into police custody for questioning.

Police said that they seized knives at the Coronation Street house.

They went to the house around 9am after receiving a telephone call.

Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran's bungalow where they found the victims'bodies in separate rooms.

"We are treating this as murder, but we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it," an RUC spokesman said.

The killings are not believed to be terrorist-related.

Eye witness Wilma Farrara, who is deaf, said she saw a man running up the path to the bungalow around 8.15am.
Speaking through an interpreter she said: "I saw a man running up the path to the house.
"I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight. I hadn't seen the man before.

"I didn't see whether he went into the house or not. And I didn't see him come out."

Another neighbour, who didn't wish to be named, said she had seen the man in the area on previous occasions.

Patricia was under heavy sedation at her home where she is being comforted by relatives.

She is understood to have a nine-year-old daughter and worked with her sister at Neill's newsagent shop in the Co Antrim village.

Manageress Angela had been employed at the shop for 20 years while Patricia worked there three mornings a week.
