64-year-old man denies murdering two pensioners in 1993

A 64-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering two pensioners in 1993.

Anne Castle, 74, and her brother William Bryan, 71, were found dead in their flat in Bethnal Green, east London, after an apparently botched burglary.

On Tuesday, Danville Neil, 64, appeared before the Old Bailey charged with their murders between August 21-24 1993.

The defendant, of Sandrock Road, Lewisham, south-east London, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

During the hearing, a trial of up to four weeks before a High Court judge was set for November 7 next year.

The defendant was remanded into custody.