British police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of twin sisters and an elderly couple in northern England, television says.
Sky News said Mark Hobson, 34, was buying a packet of matches at a service station in the village of Shipton, north of York, when a member of staff recognised him from a 'wanted' poster and called police on Sunday.
North Yorkshire police declined to confirm if an arrest had been made, but said an operation had taken place in that area and a road had been closed.
Police conducted a week-long manhunt for Hobson in connection with the murders of twin sisters Claire and Diane Sanderson and pensioners James and Joan Britton in separate attacks 25 miles apart.
The 27-year-old Sanderson sisters were found dead last Sunday in a apartment in the northern village of Camblesforth.
Later the same day, the bodies of an elderly couple, 80-year-old James Britton and 82-year-old Joan, were found stabbed and beaten to death in the nearby village of Strensall.
