A murder investigation has been launched in southwest France a British couple were found dead at their isolated countryside home.
Friends of the husband and wife – who have not been named – visited the home in Boudrac, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, south of Toulouse, after not hearing from them for a few days.
When they arrived at their home – which they had planned to turn into a bed and breakfast – on Sunday afternoon, they found the lifeless body of their friend, a 65-year-old woman.