A COUPLE targeted by a crossbow attack which left one of them dead had reported the suspect to the police a year before he struck, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said yesterday.

Shane Gilmer was murdered at his home in Southburn near Driffield, Humberside, on January 12 and his partner Laura Sugden was also seriously injured.

The murder suspect, their neighbour Anthony Howarth, was found dead in a car in North Yorkshire the next day.