Couple found dead in Tipperary wrote letter to neighbour saying they were leaving the area

Gardaí at the scene in Cloneen, Co Tipperary.  Picture: Brendan Gleeson

The elderly English couple found dead in their Tipperary home wrote a letter to a local resident in the autumn of 2020 in which they said they were leaving the area.

Gardaí are understood to have seen a letter, written by either Nicholas Smith, 81, or his wife Hilary, 79, in which one of them writes that another English couple are coming to stay at the house.