Overview
- Police found a man with life-threatening injuries on Drysdale Crescent and pronounced him dead at the scene after a street altercation that happened on Wednesday night, September 9.
- The victim has been named as 56-year-old Douglas Moffat, who lived on the street and whose next of kin are being supported by officers.
- Alan Richards, 43, and Sarah Shorter, 40, have been charged with Moffat’s murder and with the attempted murder of a woman in her 50s who was treated in hospital and later discharged.
- Two other people — a 38-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman — remain in custody on suspicion of assisting an offender while the Major Investigation Team carries out forensic work and witness interviews.
- Investigators ask anyone with information to contact Northumbria Police quoting reference NP-20260909-1173 by calling 101 or using the force’s online reporting channels.