Man and woman shot dead in Devizes, Wiltshire

A man and a woman have been found shot dead at a house in Devizes in Wiltshire.

Police discovered the bodies after they were called to the address at the Moonrakers estate shortly before 11am on Saturday.

The man has been named locally as former police inspector Bill Dowling, and the woman as his partner, Vicky.

Mr Dowling, a 59-year-old father of two sons, is believed to have left the force five years ago and worked for the Ministry of Defence at Tidworth, according to the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald.

The newspaper says he was a former inspector at Devizes, Marlborough and Trowbridge. It reports that he was a section commander at Marlborough for four-and-a-half years before moving to headquarters in Devizes, where he became an operations inspector in the joint 999 control room.