The Garage Murders * Crime Documentary

Late in the evening of January 23 1995, the families of Antonio Marrocco – known as Tony – and Paul Sandham raised the alarm after the pair failed to return home from work at Tony’s garage on White Lund.

Arriving at TM Motors in Northgate at 1.30am, nothing could have prepared the police for the sight that faced tham when they opened the door. Inside, officers found the body of 49-year-old car dealer Tony. The Italian dad-of-one had been beaten to death with a wrench. His colleague Paul’s body was found the following morning. The 29-year-old – who had recently fought a cancer battle – had been stabbed 40 times and dumped in a field off Powder House Lane, a mile from the garage. A police hunt was now on for a double killer who seemed to have murdered the men, both from Bolton-le-Sands, for just a few hundred pounds and Tony’s gold chain. Detectives believed the killer had asked Paul to take him for a test drive, before stabbing him to death and returning to the garage to murder Tony.