He heard a loud noise and when he looked back he saw "the two guys falling down", he said.

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The inquest also heard from Tommy's nanny, Anna Martin, who said they were waiting at traffic lights when she heard a "hollow noise" and a scream.

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Police said the 43-year-old in the house was upstairs when he heard a noise at the door and saw two men pouring petrol through the letterbox.

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But Martin has always maintained that he heard a noise while in bed, came down the stairs and opened fire in self defence.

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Det Insp Andy Haslam said the robbers would have made a lot of noise and appealed to anyone who saw or heard anything out of the ordinary to come forward.

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Checking into the country hotel Villa il Tesoro outside Massa Marittima one afternoon, I stepped into the reception room to deafening noise and people shouting to be heard on the other side of a door.

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One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.

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