French police say they’re nonetheless investigating the deaths of a British couple whose our bodies have been discovered of their rural house in Aveyron within the south of France final week.
The our bodies of Andrew Searle, a retired fraud investigator, and his spouse, Daybreak, a mission supervisor, have been found at about 12.30pm on Thursday at their house within the village of Les Pesquiès.
On Tuesday, the general public prosecutor’s workplace on the city of Rodez confirmed that the physique of Daybreak Searle, 56, was discovered “semi-naked” exterior the property with head accidents attributable to a number of blows from a “blunt and sharp object”. A jewelry field was discovered close by.
The home appeared to have been rudimentarily searched; money was discovered within the couple’s bed room. The prosecutor stated no hint had been discovered of the instrument used to inflict the blows on Daybreak Searle.
When police arrived they searched the property and found Andrew Searle, 65, useless inside. The prosecutor stated his physique was discovered hanging, with no seen defence accidents.
French police say no theories are being excluded. Theories as to what befell embody a housebreaking gone flawed or a attainable home dispute resulting in a murder-suicide.
“Additional investigations (anatomo-pathological, toxicological) are beneath manner as a way to decide the exact circumstances of the deaths. Investigations are persevering with, specifically to find out whether or not the tragedy was the results of a spousal crime adopted by suicide, or whether or not a 3rd social gathering intervened,” the assertion stated.
The couple married in 2023 and had two youngsters every from earlier relationships. They’d lived within the village for 5 years.
After the deaths, Daybreak Searle’s son, the actor Callum Kerr, and her daughter, Amanda Kerr, and Andrew Searle’s youngsters, Tom and Ella Searle, launched a press release saying they’d not be talking to the media and interesting for privateness.
Callum Kerr starred within the sixth season of the Netflix drama Virgin River and has appeared within the Channel 4 cleaning soap Hollyoaks. He walked his mom down the aisle at her wedding ceremony to Searle in 2023 and shared photographs celebrating the event.
Earlier, the general public prosecutor, Nicolas Rigot-Muller, stated: “Each died violent deaths, however I can’t set up that both was a murder. All hypotheses stay open.”
In accordance with his LinkedIn profile, Andrew Searle retired in 2015 after a profession in monetary crime prevention. After quitting as a marketing consultant in monetary crime assurance at Barclays in Glasgow, Searle posted that he was “having fun with life in rural France – renovating!” He beforehand labored for 21 years at Customary Life in Edinburgh, the place he was answerable for the financial institution’s anti-crime initiatives throughout Europe.
A declare made by MailOnline that police have been investigating the chance that the couple have been murdered by UK-based criminals has not been confirmed by the French authorities.
Searle went to a grammar college in Steyning, West Sussex, and graduated from Liverpool John Moores College.
A spokesperson for the Overseas and Commonwealth Workplace stated: “We’re supporting the household of a British couple who died in France and are liaising with the native authorities.”
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