A MURDER investigation is under way after the bloodstained body of a woman was found in a bedroom.
Paramedics answering a 999 call found the woman in a semi-detached bungalow in Palm Street, Craghead, near Stanley, at around 4.30am on Wednesday.
She has not been formally identified but is thought to be in her thirties.
A man in his fifties who was in the bungalow when emergency services arrived was taken to Durham's University Hospital, where he was still detained at the time the Advertiser went to press on Wednesday.
Detectives had arrested a man on suspicion of murder, but had yet to interview him.
Forensic experts have begun an inch-by-inch examination of the bungalow, while police carried out house-to-house inquiries.
A knife was recovered from the bungalow and sent to laboratories for scientific tests.
A Home Office pathologist was carrying out a post-mortem examination to determine the precise cause of the woman's death.
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