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The Burgate House murders were committed in September 1986 at Burgate House, Fordingbridge, Hampshire. Joseph and Hilda Cleaver (both 82), their son Thomas (47) and live-in nurse Margaret Murphy (70) were bound and doused with petrol before being set alight by their killers. Thomas Cleaver's wife Wendy (46) was repeatedly raped before being killed by strangulation. George Stephenson, the Cleaver's former handyman, and brothers George and John Daly were subsequently tried and convicted for the crimes, dubbed the "House of Horrors murders" by the media.