A pathologist will carry out a post mortem this evening on the man shot dead after a police seige in Shildon, County Durham.

Keith Richards was shot by a marksman as he fired a crossbow from the bedroom window of his terraced house in the town's Cheapside.

A police spokesman said a post mortem would be carried out this evening and a statement issued in the morning.

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