A SHOCKED tenant may quit his house near York after discovering it was the scene of an horrific double murder by crazed killer Mark Hobson.

Pole Rafal Misztal was stunned yesterday when the Evening Press revealed the grim truth about 453 Strensall Road, Strensall, where pensioners Joan and James Britton, pictured right, were savagely stabbed to death last summer.

"Oh God! Oh God! That's terrible!" he exclaimed.

Rafal, 22, said he had rented out the house some weeks ago from the boss of a York restaurant where he worked. "Nobody told me about the murders," he said.

"If they had done, I wouldn't have come here. I am really scared by this. I may go and live somewhere else."

He revealed he had already been "spooked" by an incident a couple of weeks ago - before he knew about the killings - in which he claimed he had been sitting alone in the kitchen late at night and heard the noise of footsteps upstairs.

After sitting terrified for a couple of hours, he had plucked up the courage to go upstairs, but found no one there and no sign of a break-in.

He said fellow Pole, Dominik Grzybek, who also lived there, had heard exactly the same noise on Monday night of this week, and again no one had been there.

Rafal said he had been working in Cumbria last summer, having come to Britain to find work, and had not taken in the news about the murders by Hobson, which sparked a massive manhunt across Britain until he was found near Shipton-by-Beningbrough a week later.

The Evening Press approached Rafal to give him opportunity to comment, after revealing yesterday that the vicar of Camblesforth, near Selby, the Rev Jonas Mdumulla, had offered to exorcise the house in Camblesforth where Hobson killed two other people, twin sisters Claire and Diane Sander-son.

That house remains unsold after being on the market for more than a year, while the Brittons' former home was sold some months ago.

Updated: 10:55 Thursday, August 18, 2005