Couple Killed By Gay Son

UNITED KINGDOM - The son accused of killing his parents in their Crete home had caused a rift in his family because he is gay.
Ryan Johnson, 32, told cops he was out boozing when parents Terence and Josephine Johnson were bound, gagged, strangled and stabbed.
But yesterday preliminary charges were laid against him over the deaths.
He is in custody and will face a court today when he will be formally charged with murder.
His parents, who moved to Crete last summer to start a new life with Ryan, only moved into their dream two-storey two-bed villa last week.
Expats in the small village of Almirida, near the port town Chania in the west of the Greek island yesterday revealed Ryan was known to be gay — and claimed his sexuality had driven a wedge between him and his dad.
One Brit said: “Everyone here either guessed or knew Ryan was gay.
“I never saw him with a boyfriend, but there was no doubt which way he leant because he is a very effeminate lad. His dad was known not to like that fact at all and it seemed to have caused a split in the family.
“There was a lot of tension between them and a lot of unresolved issues.”
Earlier police chief Captain Stelios Vardambasis claimed Ryan’s version of the weekend’s events was patchy.
He said the son told cops: “We had no enemies, we got on well with everyone. I have no idea which sick minds could have done this.”
He told police he found the bodies of Terence, 54, and Josephine, 53, at their villa on Sunday afternoon.
He said he had slept through Saturday night in a drunken stupor unaware they had been slain.
But yesterday German barmaid Charlene Jburg, 25, told how Ryan had drunk only two beers in two and a half hours at the Vangelis bar in nearby Plaka on the Saturday night.
She said: “He played a few games of pool. He seemed very relaxed. He wasn’t drunk.”
Cops had thought the attack was a botched robbery as cash and valuables were snatched.
Around 20 suspects — including neighbours, Albanian labourers and foreigners working on orange and olive groves — were quizzed.
Coroner Manolis Mihalodimitrakis found the couple, originally from Penzance, Cornwall, were knifed and strangled.
Capt Vardambasis added: “This is the most gruesome killing of foreign tourists in the recent history of Crete.”
The couple opened a gift shop called Pebbles five days before they were slain.
from The Sun