A British radio DJ murdered in Lebanon filmed himself alongside two of his alleged killers in his apartment just hours before he was found dead.
Gavin Ford, 53, posted the video on social media on Monday night - his 53rd birthday - showing himself in his apartment in the mountain village of Broumana, which overlooks Beirut, alongside two men sitting on the sofa.
The following day police found him bludgeoned to death inside the apartment with his hands and feet tied up and a curtain thrown over his body.
Investigators have now confirmed that four people have been arrested for his murder, including the two men seen in the video.
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Gavin Ford, 53, was found bludgeoned and choked to death at his home in Lebanon
His lifeless and bloodied body was discovered next to a four-poster bed after police were called to his apartment (above)
The suspects, both Syrian, were detained in the Bekaa Valley, a notoriously lawless area in the east of Lebanon.
In the video Ford filmed on Monday night, he is seen speaking to the camera before panning the phone towards two men sitting on his sofa.
'Cheers for the message. Yeah, I am looking 53, look bloody awful. See my eye is a bit funny,' he says.
'Say hello everyone,' he says as he turns the camera to show the men sitting on his sofa, before adding: 'I've gotta go, I've been up all day.
'I haven't had my rest, I'm going to be so tired. I'm going to the Indian restaurant later. Cheers!'
Ford's killers fled the scene with his BMW convertible, which was later found abandoned, and also took his iPhone.
A friend revealed that even his dog Fred was stolen.
Embassy officials, who asked to remain anonymous, also believe that Ford's home safe had been opened without force and its contents removed.
'It is possible that Gavin took two Syrians with him in his car and these two men are implicated now in his death,' the report says.
According to officials close to the investigation, it will be at least another day or two before fingerprints, CCTV footage and telephone records can give any indication about Ford's murder.
Friends and neighbours in the picturesque leafy mountain village of Broumana where Ford lived say he will be greatly missed.
'He was a great guy, a real gentlemen and we consider him to be a something quite special which has been robbed from us,' said Alex Jeraco, a jeweller.
'These people...just filthy people. Who would do that to Gavin?
A friend of Ford's says his dog Fred (pictured with the radio DJ) was also stolen from his home
Friends and neighbours in the picturesque leafy mountain village of Broumana where Ford lived say he will be greatly missed
'I mean, they took his car, his phone... even his dog. Where is the dog?'
Other neighbours were in a state in shock about Ford's death when approached by MailOnline.
'He was so kind and polite, very polite. And we liked him a lot which is why we forgave him for his ways,' an elderly lady living in the apartments said.
She added: 'Some of the men he brought back, you know, were not so... so good.
'I just can't explain or understand why someone so good as Gavin could be with such people.'
Another neighbour added: 'Gavin himself was such a gentle man who was obviously a good sort.
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Gavin Ford was famous as the host of 'Gavin Ford in the Morning', said to be Lebanon's most listened to breakfast show
'We are open minded, but others in the town perhaps wouldn't be.'
Another neighbour, a middle-aged woman, said she saw Ford arrive home at around 10.30am on the day he was murdered.
She said it was 'the normal time he came back from the radio station.'
She also claimed that she saw him walk from the car park where he left his black BMW and he was alone at the time.
The police report confirms officers arrived at Ford's apartment at 11.15pm that night.
One of the neighbours claimed officers hadn't needed to break down the front door before entering to find Ford face down in a pool of blood.
Radio One Lebanon confirmed his death in a statement on the station's Facebook page on Tuesday
Colleagues at Beirut's Radio One raised the alarm when he failed to turn up for work Monday
A team of more than 20 officers arrived at the scene, including a pathologist and a doctor who specialises in crime scenes.
The police report confirmed Ford was strangled and his body was found with his hands bound behind his back and his ankles also tied together.
His body – which was covered in bruises, according to the report – was also covered with what appeared to be a curtain.
Colleagues at Beirut's Radio One raised the alarm when he failed to turn up for work on Tuesday morning.
Abdo Kahale, the director of Radio One, described Ford as a 'super guy' and a 'gentleman.'
'I can't replace Gavin. He was really a legend for 15 years and we'll truly miss him,' he said.
'Gavin was a super guy and above all, a gentleman,' he said.
His lifeless and bloodied body was discovered next to a four-poster bed after police broke down the front door of in his exclusive apartment
Mr Ford's body was discovered at his apartment in the suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday morning
'I'm looking forward for the police to get the culprits as soon as possible,' he added.
A former colleague who knew Ford well for two decades added: 'He was just so incredibly gentle and kind and that's how I and many others will remember him, and also a little gullible. That was Gavin. Just too kind.
'He often would give up his time unpaid to help university students or chair panels for the Lebanese, people he loved, for a country he felt at home in. He's going to be really missed.'
He said he didn't want to be drawn into commenting about Ford's private life as a gay man in Lebanon, a country still very much homophobic in many ways, although accommodating gay bars, unlike other Arab countries.
Britain's ambassador to Lebanon, Chris Rampling, said he was 'shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Gavin Ford, one of Lebanon's most popular morning breakfast hosts'.
'The thoughts of all at the embassy are with his family, friends and colleagues at this terribly difficult time,' he tweeted, also posting a photograph of Ford.
A spokesman in the British Embassy in Lebanon added: 'We are in contact with the Lebanese authorities following reports of the death of a British man in Beirut, and our staff are providing assistance to his family.'
Ford's death is the third time in two years that a Brit has been murdered in Lebanon.
He studied at the National Broadcasting School in London before going on to present a breakfast show on Radio Caroline, a popular station in the UK broadcast from a ship off the UK coastline.
He later found work with stations in France and Cyprus before moving to Lebanon, where his breakfast show was said to have been the country's most popular since 1996.
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