Mr Power said the case has raised unsettling questions about the “pernicious and perilous” road taken by drug dealers and said: “We have seen that the underbelly of society that deals in drugs is a murky world indeed.” He said police had ruled out a man named Gregory Beeden, who ran Drink Stop in Hastings, despite the fact Mr Beeden’s DNA was apparently also on the cigarette lighter found at the scene. Mr Power pointed the finger at Mr Beeden, and suggested he could well have been in the dock himself for the murders, claiming he used the drinks delivery business as a front for class A drug dealing.