Friends of British couple found dead in south of France reject murder-suicide theories - The bodies of Dawn and Andrew Searle were reportedly discovered on Thursday by a neighbour at their home in the

All possible explanations are being investigated, police say, after the bodies of the couple in their 60s are discovered by a friend in an idyllic village in southern France.

The couple, who were found dead in their remote home in south west France after a possible burglary gone wrong, had moved to the area almost a decade ago

Andrew and Dawn Searle, who were in their 60s, were found dead at their home in Les Pesquies in the south west of France.

A British couple were found dead at their home in Aveyron in unexplained circumstances on Thursday, February 6. The bodies of the unnamed British couple - identified as an English man and Scottish woman in their 60s - were found by a neighbour at around 13:00 at their home near Villefranche-de-Rouergue.

The pair, named on Friday as Andrew and Dawn Searle, moved to south west France from Scotland about a decade ago. The local mayor, Jean-Sébastien Orcibal, told French television that the deaths were "clearly a homicide".

Prosecutors investigating the violent deaths of a retired British couple in south-west France are treating the case as a possible murder-suicide.

Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a retired British couple were found dead in grisly circumstances at their luxury gîte in south-west France.

A British couple have been found dead in their home in south west France. Andrew and Dawn Searle, who moved to France from Scotland about 10 years ago, were discovered by their neighbour on Thursday.

A British couple in their sixties were found dead in their home in southwestern France, with prosecutors saying on Friday they died a "violent death". The bodies of the couple, who had lived in France for years,

Andrew and Dawn Searles have been named after their bodies were found by their neighbour in the hamlet of Les Pesquiès, in south western France.