A British man who was found dead besides his wife on their rural France house, was seen on security cameras that bought a lottery ticket hours before their bodies were discovered.
Andrew Searle, 62, was seen to buy two euros in lottery tickets and a bar with chocolate from a tobacco shop in the French village of Les Pesquiès around 6 pm Wednesday, according to sun.
The next day, around 12:20 pm, the Brit and his wife, Dawn Searle, 56, were found dead at their house.
Neighbors described the horrible circumstances in which their bodies were discovered, according to De Telegraaf.
Andrew, a former financial researcher, was reportedly hung in the house and was found with a plug in his mouth.
Dawn’s body is said to have been naked naked outside their quiet countryside with signs of head trauma and her jewelry spread where she was discovered.
No weapons were found at the crime scene or around the building, the police said.
The owner of the tobacco shop who had hours with Andrew interaction before he was found dead, said Isabelle Palazy, that the couple was ‘normal customers’.
“He would come in every day and buy Fortuna Blue cigarettes,” Palazy, 58, told The Sun. “That day he came in just before I closed and he seemed completely happy, he was relaxed and he talked and bought some chocolate and two lots.”
“Thinking that they would die less than 24 hours later makes me cold, I just can’t believe it. They were a nice couple, always happy and chatting and they spoke French, “she said.
A neighbor also reported that Andrew seemed sad to look like while he saw the day before the horrible discovery on a dog walk.
“I saw them the day before they were found, they ran the dogs and Andrew was on the phone,” said the non -created neighbor, according to the outlet. “He was very agitated and he argued in English, he just waved at me and then continued.”
A friend of the Searles, Odile Marian, said that the 62-year-old was worried about finding his garage door in the days prior to the death of the couple.
“He had seen that the door of his garage was open, although he was sure he had closed him,” she told the exhaust. “So he looked for who opened his garage. And he didn’t think who did. We don’t know if it is connected. Maybe it was he who left it open, but he was sure he had closed it? ‘
The police have speculated that the couple may have been killed during a burglary.
The mayor of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Jean-Sébastien Orcibal, said that it was “clearly a murder” and said he excluded that they were killed in a burglary “wrong”, according to the Shot.
Authorities still have to release an official cause of death and wait for “the result of the autopsies” before they share “tangible information”, said public prosecutor Nicolas Rigot-Muller in a statement to the Scotsman.
“All leads continue to be seriously considered,” said Rigot-Muller, including the possibility of a suicide.
Andrew, originally from West Sussex and Dawn, from Scotland, married in 2023 and lived in the region for the past 10 years.
The couple were reportedly popular with members of the community and was known to have been throwing parties and traveling through Europe together.
Andrew is said to have played a key role in the removal of organized crime acts, exposing terrorist cash paths and combating sanctions busters associated with russia as Russia while they worked as a financial researcher before retiring, according to retirement sun.
He described himself on his LinkedIn Professional Profile as “responsible for all anti-financial crime issues in the British and Europe-function-a research service for the group.”
The son of Dawn, the in Scottish in the Scottish actor Callum Kerr, posted one Explanation on Instagram In the weekend he and his sister Amanda Kerr “mourned the loss of their mother,” while Andrew’s children Tom and Ella Searle “mourned their father”.
“We kindly ask to respect their privacy during this difficult period. We will provide updates where necessary, “he wrote.
Callum Kerr has appeared in “Virgin River” from Netflix and is also a national singer who lives in Nashville with his fiancé.
