French police are investigating the dying of a British couple who have been found useless of their residence in France.
The our bodies of Andrew and Daybreak Searle have been discovered round 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, at their residence within the village of Les Pesquiès, after a neighbor alerted police after they didn’t present up for a deliberate canine stroll, the BBC reported.
Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mayor Jean-Sébastien Orcibal informed a French tv station that the couple’s dying was a murder, per the outlet.
Neighbors informed The Telegraph that Daybreak was discovered bare outdoors the house. She had suffered head accidents and items of her jewellery have been strewn round her.
Authorities have declined to debate the case.
“I’m ready to know the date and the results of the autopsies, in addition to what comes again from the preliminary investigations, in order that I can share tangible data,” Public prosecutor Nicolas Rigot-Muller mentioned in a press release, per the Scotsman.
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Andrew, a retired fraud investigator, and Daybreak, who labored in venture administration, had retired to France about 10 years earlier, in line with the Scotsman.
Daybreak is the mom of Virgin River and Monarch actor Callum Kerr, per BBC.
Kerr walked his mom down the aisle when she married Andrew in 2023 in France.
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“Not many individuals can say they walked their very own mom down the aisle,” he mentioned on social media, per BBC. “What a pleasure. I really like you mum.”
Orcibal informed The Telegraph that the couple “had a really wealthy social life.”
“These have been individuals who have been very well-known within the neighborhood,” he mentioned. “They have been British however they actually wished to combine into native life.”
“That they had two pedigree canines that they walked alongside the river each day. And each time they bumped up into somebody, greater than a fast ‘bonjour’, they’d cease and discuss. They have been very sort and courteous.”
