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The unexplained deaths of four people who were living at a homeless shelter in Cornwall at the same time as triple killer James Desborough are being reviewed, police have said.
The 40-year-old was found guilty of murdering two other men he met in a homeless shelter on Tuesday.
Earlier this year he was also sentenced for murdering his cellmate in Exeter Prison while on remand for the murder charges.
Det Supt Rachael Bentley, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said officers were looking at the unexpected deaths of two men and two women at the Sandy Lodge homeless shelter in Newquay between December 2024 and April 2025.
She said: "As a major crime investigation team we were informed by the coroner's officer for His Majesty's Coroner that there were four deaths at Sandy Lodge.
"As part of the investigation, a detective inspector, separate to the investigation but within major crime, did a review of those deaths, and that included commissioning some more forensic work, some CCTV, and statements."
Police said inquiries were ongoing and the deaths remained unexpected at this stage.
Bentley said Desborough was "not a suspect at this time".
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