The killer and his victims previously lived together at Sandy Lodge Hotel in Newquay, which housed homeless people and those suffering from addictions. Police remain in the process of reviewing the unexplained deaths of four others who lived there at the same time as Desborough. The killer lived at Sandy Lodge Hotel between December 2024 and April 2025, during which time two men and two women died unexpectedly. She added that the investigation into the four deaths at the Sandy Lodge Hotel is "ongoing". Their bodies in an area of Sticker Woods, near St Austell, where Desborough lived in a wooden cabin.