British couple found in French hamlet died by murder-suicide, police say

French officials investigating the deaths of a married British couple in the south of France have said they are treating it as a murder-suicide, according to reports.

Andrew and Dawn Searle’s bodies were found dead in the hamlet of Les Pesquies in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron near Toulouse, in the early afternoon of February 6.