Convicted killer denies murdering two friends whose remains were found near his Cornwall cabin

James Desborough told court he had discovered bodies of Claudio Aquilino and Daniel Coleman on his land near St Austell

A convicted killer accused of murdering two of his friends whose remains were found burnt and dismembered near his Cornish woodland cabin has insisted he did not kill them but had discovered their bodies on his land.

James Desborough claimed he came upon one of the bodies hanging from a tree and the second lying naked in a stream.