By Connor Boyd For Mailonline
Published: 21:23 GMT, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 21:40 GMT, 15 February 2019
A 27-year-old polo-playing ex-public schoolboy has been charged with the murders of three 'frail and reclusive' Exeter pensioners.
Alexander Lewis-Ranwell will appear at Exeter Magistrates' Court tomorrow accused of killing Anthony Payne, 80, and 84-year-old twins Dick and Roger Carter.
All three victims were found dead within 24 hours at two addresses a mile apart in the Devon city this week.
Post-mortems found all three men died of 'sustained serious head injuries'.
Anthony Payne (left), 80, was one of three pensioners brutally murdered in Exeter this week. Alexander Lewis Ranwell (right) is accused of killing the elderly men
Lewis-Ranwell was an avid polo player and ex public schoolboy who attended the prestigious£30,000-a-year West Buckland boarding school
Lewis-Ranwell has also been charged with two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the deaths had been linked because of the age of the victims, the presentation of the properties and the injuries sustained by the victims.
Lewis-Ranwell, a surfing and polo enthusiast who has campaigned to the legalisation of cannabis and cannabis oil on Facebook, was being grilled by police throughout the day before being charged with three counts of murder at around 9pm tonight.
One of Lewis-Ranwell's neighbours and family friends said that he attended the £30,000-a-year West Buckland boarding school.
Until last year he was living in Barnstaple and was believed to have a 64-year-old girlfriend who he lived with for a long period
