Harrogate hotel deaths: Couple died in murder-suicide
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image captionThe couple from the London area were found dead on Tuesday evening
The deaths of a couple in a hotel room is being treated as a murder-suicide, police have said.
Chenise Gregory and her partner Michael McGibbon, who were both 29 and from the London area, were found with knife wounds at the DoubleTree by Hilton Harrogate Majestic Hotel on Tuesday.
North Yorkshire Police said detectives were treating the death of Ms Gregory as murder.
The force added it was not believed anyone else was involved.
Temporary Det Ch Insp Jonathan Sygrove said: An investigation into the circumstances around the deaths is ongoing, but the evidence we have gathered at this stage suggests it is a suspected murder-suicide.
A man killed his girlfriend and then stabbed himself to death at a prestigious hotel in a North Yorkshire town.
Chenise Gregory, 29, and her partner Michael McGibbon, also 29, were both found dead and covered in stab wounds in their room by shocked staff at the Doubletree by Hilton in Harrogate.
The London couple had travelled more than 200 miles to stay in the hotel.
Police today revealed that they are treating their deaths on Tuesday night as a murder-suicide and believe Ms Gregory was murdered.
Chenise Gregory, 29, and her partner Michael McGibbon, also 29, were both found dead and covered in stab wounds in their room by shocked staff at the Doubletree by Hilton in Harrogate
Updated: 7 May 2021, 8:16
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A WOMAN was stabbed to death in a Hilton hotel before her partner killed himself in what is believed to have been a murder-suicide.
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Police now believe that Chenise Gregory was killed by her partner Michael McGibbon before he turned the knife on himself in a murder suicideCredit: Alamy
The couple, from the London area, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Detectives are treating the death of Ms Gregory as murder and they do not believe anyone else is involved.
Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding what happened are ongoing, according to North Yorkshire Police.