MURDER inquiry detectives are keen to trace two youths seen walking through Kendal town centre prior to a suspicious hotel fire which killed a 62-year-old man.

And tomorrow night they will attempt to try to identify the pair by showing CCTV footage of the men walking up Finkle Street through a specially rigged up hi-tech screen in the window of Hadwins Ltd, which is located in the street.

A police constable will be on hand for members of the public to approach if they are able to recognise the men and to talk to about anything they may have seen on the night of January 6/7.

Police had a disappointing response to last Saturday's leafletting campaign where they targeted clubbers at Jazz's exactly a week after the fire at the Kendal Hotel, off Highgate, in which Norman Picken died.

They are desperately trying to piece together the movements of everyone who was at the club and in the area of the hotel that night but very few people are coming forward with information.

"I am disappointed that those people who we know were in Jazz's nightclub that night have not come forward," Detective Inspector Geoff Steele told the Gazette.

"Until they speak to us they really don't know whether they can help us or not.

We are not hitting our target audience, and if we are, they are not listening."

The two men in the CCTV footage were filmed shortly after midnight and were seen to go down the alley by the Bradford & Bingley Building Society towards Jazz's nightclub.

Detectives want to establish whether they are the same two men seen entering the Kendal Hotel prior to the fire taking hold at around 12.45am on Sunday January 7.

"If we can establish that, it will further the inquiry," said DI Steele.

"We are showing this video at schools, colleges, voluntary and professional organisations and to individuals known to be in Kendal on the night.

"We are determined to identify these two people who may have vital information to the inquiry and would urge them to come forward.

It's a great draw on our resources just to establish the movements of two people."

Anyone with information should contact Kendal police station on 01539-722611 or Crimestoppers on 0800-555111.