Murder probe detectives name victim

NEIGHBOURS 28-YEAR-OLD LEFT IN SHOCK AFTER MAN DIES IN STABBING

- DAMON WILKINSON, ASHLIE BLAKEY AND JAMES HOLT

A MAN ‘stabbed to death’ on a cul-de-sac has been named as a murder investigation continues.

Rees Howarth, thought to be 28, died following the attack in Hyde on Sunday afternoon.

Yesterday police said two women – aged 19 and 27 – had been arrested on suspicion of murder after officers were called to reports of a ‘domestic disturbance’. The women remain in custody for questioning.

Yesterday morning, two forensic tents had been erected in a front garden and on the pavement outside and crime scene investigators could be seen taking photographs inside a terraced house on Thorsby Avenue.

Much of the small cul-de-sac remained cordoned off. One neighbour said she was in the back garden when she heard police arrive on the street at about 3pm on Sunday.