AN ELDERLY couple found dead in their home had advised a neighbour to call the police, it was revealed at the opening of an inquest.

When police entered the detached house in Bishop’s Walk, St Asaph, on November 13 they found the bodies of 80-year-old Joseph Howard Titterton, and his wife Jacqueline, 77.

Mr Titterton, a retired engineer, was found in the bath and his wife on her bed.

At the hearing in Ruthin John Gittins, coroner for North Wales East and Central, said that their next-door neighbour Andrew Thomas found a note through his door saying the police should be called.

A post-mortem examination was carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers who gave the cause of death of both Mr and Mrs Titterton as asphyxia.

Mr Gittins said that Mr Titterton was understood to have a terminal illness.

The inquest was adjourned to a date to be fixed.