Death of British couple in south of France leaves town’s residents ‘traumatised’

Dawn and Andrew Searle lived in the French village of Les Pesquies, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, pictured (Alamy/PA) -

The sudden death of a British couple at their home in the south of France has left the town “completely devastated and traumatised”, a local has said.

Andrew Searle and Dawn Kerr, a married British couple aged in their 60s, were found dead at their home address in the hamlet of Les Pesquies in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, in the early afternoon of February 6 by a neighbour who used to go on walks with them, local newspaper Midi Libre reported.