Forensic officers examine boat of elderly couple as police probe their deaths Neighbours have spoken of their disbelief at the death of an elderly couple in a seaside town as forensic officers examine a boat on their driveway.
He added that Mrs Newton was a “sleeping director” of Priesthawes Farms in Pevensey, East Sussex, which he said he understood to have been her family’s farm and where they would visit at Christmas time.
Mr Ramsbottom said: “They were very pleasant, they had their little boat and used to go out in the harbour.
“When he brought it back to the house in early November I said ‘What a rotten summer you have had’ but he replied, ‘Oh no, we went out quite a few times and enjoyed it’.
Neighbour Edward Ramsbottom, 86, told the PA news agency: “I couldn’t really believe it, we are just trying to think what it could have been about.
