It is marketed as a characterful village home, complete with beamed ceilings, cast-iron fireplaces and a stylish open-plan kitchen - ticking all the boxes for rural living.

But a former Post Office listed for sale on property website Rightmove comes with a chilling footnote buried among the particulars.

Estate agents warn bluntly: 'A crime was committed at this property’.

The four-bedroom end-of-terrace house sits in the centre of Melsonby, North Yorks, where The Village Shop and Post Office once stood at the centre of daily life.

In March 2010, that same building became the scene of a killing that sent shockwaves through the close-knit community and would later become one of Britain’s most controversial murder cases.

Sub-postmistress Diana Garbutt, 40, was found brutally bludgeoned to death in her bed above the rural Post Office she ran with her husband, Robin.

He claimed she was killed by an armed robber who attacked Diana as she slept, before returning downstairs to demand £16,000 in cash from the time-locked safe.

Garbutt later told police the robber fled before the safe opened – and that only then did he go upstairs and discovered his wife's lifeless body.

A former Post Office listed for sale on property website Rightmove comes with a chilling footnote buried among the particulars

Three weeks after his wife's death, Robin was arrested for his wife Diana's murder (Robin and Diana Garbutt pictured together) 

Garbutt who was convicted at Teesside Crown Court denies the murder of Diana to this day 

The Melsonby Post Office as it was when it was still operating in 2010 on the day Diana's body was found

Yet, in 2011, he was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life - after a jury concluded he faked the robbery in a desperate attempt to cover mounting debts.

Fifteen years on, Garbutt, now 60, remains behind bars, still vehemently denying he killed Diana.

The case has since become deeply controversial due to its links to the Post Office Horizon scandal - one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

Prosecutors alleged Robin had debts of around £30,000 and had been stealing from the Post Office, a supposed motive for murder. Evidence from the Post Office’s Horizon accounting system was used to support that claim.

Since then, Horizon has been exposed as catastrophically flawed, leading to the wrongful prosecution of more than 700 sub-postmasters and mistresses.

Garbutt's conviction, which has already survived three failed appeals, is now under renewed scrutiny following the Sky documentary Murder at the Post Office.

Despite being described as 'brimming with character', with generous living space, a self-contained office, workshop and parking for multiple cars, the property has lingered on the market for nearly two years.