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Man pleads not guilty to murder of wife and stepson

Family handout Giuseppe Morreale wearing a grey Nike T-shirt and Maria Nugara wearing a leopard-print topFamily handout
Maria Nugara and her son Giuseppe Morreale died at the scene

A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and her son at their home in an Essex village.

Maria Nugara, 54, and Giuseppe Morreale, 29, were found dead in Cambridge Road, Ugley, near Bishop's Stortford, on 28 May.

Calogero Ricotta, 63, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and a count of causing actual bodily harm at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Mr Ricotta stood in the dock with an interpreter but answered in English to say "not guilty".

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