Daily Mail
October 26, 2013
Father-of-two Leonard Flower, 67, is thought to have been attacked after popping out for a cigarette.
His wife, Linda, did not know her husband had been killed until a woman delivering flyers spotted him lying in the garage in Luton at about 2pm yesterday.
Armed police and search dogs were sent to the scene and they broke down the door of a nearby house.
Mr Flower was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 35-year-old man, named locally as Sameer Babar, was arrested five hours later and 70 miles away in Warwickshire.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: ‘Len was a right smoker, but Linda didn’t like it so he’d have a cheeky cigarette in the garage.
‘It’s probably what he was doing at the time. As soon as the first police car turned up armed response were here within minutes.
‘Sameer Babar lived opposite them.’
He paid tribute to Mr Flower and said he was a ‘great guy’, adding: ‘It’s just tragic what happened.’