TWO young men found dead in an Isle of Wight cottage were both physically and mentally disabled, it has emerged.

The bodies of the pair, aged in their early 20s, were discovered by police in a rented country cottage near the yachting village of Bembridge on Tuesday night.

Results are awaited from toxicology tests ordered after initial post-mortem examinations failed to show how they died.

Detectives were last night continuing to question a 51-year-old woman held in custody at Newport police station.

The men's identities have not yet been disclosed, but unofficial sources have indicated that they were physically and mentally disabled, and that the cottage was being rented by a middle-aged couple.

It has not been officially confirmed that the pair were handicapped, or if they were related to the person arrested.

The couple are believed to have moved to the remote farm cottage from the mainland about one year ago.

Hampshire police spokesman Jeff Hunter said no charges had so far been made against the woman. Residents of Peacock Hill, where the cottage is located, said they only knew its occupants to wave at in the street, but didn't know their names.

The hedge-lined area around the cottage, called Inglemels, was cordoned off yesterday.

No one living nearby heard any disturbance. The property is situated on the rural outskirts of Bem-bridge, which has a population of 4,000.

Village residents include the former Tory minister Lord Brabazon of Tara.

Terry Forest, who lives with his wife, Rachel, near the cottage, said the first they knew of the deaths was when police knocked at their door.

"We had heard nothing and were obviously very shocked," he added.

"We didn't know the people who lived there but believed it was a couple who had been renting the cottage for about a year.

"We would wave at them when we passed them in the lane but that was all."

Mr Forest said: "We didn't know any young men living there.

"It is all rather strange."

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