By Rory Tingle For Mailonline
Published: 16:03 GMT, 7 February 2019 | Updated: 17:00 GMT, 7 February 2019
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Identical twin brothers were found hanged from the same tree in a double suicide pact after spending their mother's £40,000 inheritance, an inquest heard.
The bodies of Neil and Paul Micklewright were found by a dog walker at a park in Greater Manchester at about 8.40am on Tuesday, July 31, last year.
Notes found in their pockets were described as 'essentially identical' by assistant coroner Jason Wells.
The bodies of Neil and Paul Micklewright were found by a dog walker at a park in Greater Manchester at about 8.40am on Tuesday, July 31, last year. Police are pictured at the scene
The Stockport coroners court inquest heard the 52-year-old twins, who were described as 'gentle, kind and generous', had lived together in Urmston their entire lives.
They first lived with their parents - Ron, who died in 1990, and Joan, who died in 2014 - before moving into their own flat.
Sister Julie Gillaspy described the Manchester City-supporting twins as 'introverted' and said they 'relied on each other most of the time'.
'They