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With conditions somewhat cramped at his sister's home, Richard moved into the house of Ma Smith, where Philip was a lodger.

Another neighbour said when police first arrived at the family's "immaculate" semi-detached house in July 2023, she had thought one of the lodgers they sometimes hosted must have been in trouble.

"It was my dream house and I had just decorated it as I was planning to have lodgers living with me," she said.

“Years ago, a room in somebody's house was called a lodger,” he said.

“If it was a house, I’d be a lodger or a tenant or whatever you call it in America,” he laughs.