Update: Police say Tyrone father and son deaths ‘not suspicious'

Police have said the sudden deaths of an elderly father and son in County Tyrone are not being treated as suspicious.

The bodies of James Grimes (85) and his son Emmett (54) were discovered at a house in the Garvaghy Road area, between Omagh and Ballygawley, on Tuesday night.

In an update this afternoon, a PSNI spokesperson said: “Detectives investigating the sudden deaths of two men in the Garvaghy area of Ballygawley on Wednesday 12th March have confirmed that, following the completion of post mortem examinations, the deaths are not being treated as suspicious. All road closures have now been lifted. There are no further details.”

Emmett Grimes is understood to have been a talented Gaelic player who won an All-Ireland Vocational Schools medal with Tyrone at Croke Park in 1989.

West Tyrone Ulster Unionist councillor, Allan Rainey, told BBC NI both men were specialists in their own trades and would be sadly missed.