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Pair named locally as Sophie Taylor, 16, and Calum Murray, 18, and police say they are not looking for other suspects
Detectives are investigating the deaths of two teenagers found with fatal shotgun wounds in a farmhouse in the Cairngorms.
The pair – named locally as Sophie Taylor, 16, and Calum Murray, 18 – were discovered on Tuesday evening at Blairnamarrow cottage, just outside the town of Tomintoul on Speyside.
Grampian police refused to discuss the background to the shootings, but said they were not looking for any other suspects.
Detective Inspector Stewart Mackie said the scene inside the cottage was "particularly distressing".
He added: "We would like to reassure the local community that this is an isolated incident. Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the two deaths are at an early stage. However, it is important to stress that we are not looking for any third party at this point."
Mackie said a firearm had been found. "We're trying to put a timeline together to establish what happened. I can't divulge any details of the people involved in the house. It's very much a sensitive situation for the families and the community."
Local sources said Taylor, a schoolgirl who worked part-time as a waitress at a local hotel, and Murray, a trainee gamekeeper who had recently moved to work on a nearby grouse moor, were in a relationship. Taylor was about to sit exams at Speyside high school in Aberlour.
There were unconfirmed reports that Murray had been upset after being jilted by Taylor, and that the shooting took place in front of two witnesses, neither of whom were injured.
Police closed off the nearby A939, between Tomintoul and Corgarff, and about 30 officers were searching the property and its surroundings.
Fiona Murdoch, a local councillor, said: "It seems like a terrible tragedy. For two young people to have died is absolutely horrendous."
An employee at the Glen Avon hotel in Tomintoul, where Taylor worked, said: "She was very popular, a lovely girl. We will all miss her very much."
The cottage is close to the hideout used by Percy Toplis, the convicted army deserter, serial criminal and suspected murderer who fled from the police in Hampshire and hid out in Tomintoul in 1920, before again running off after shooting a local constable and farmer. Toplis claimed – wrongly, say historians – to be the "monocled mutineer" made famous in the Alan Bleasdale drama about the first world war.
