[arista]

The Mums Son

Callum Kerr who played George Kiss in Channel 4 Hollyoaks.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

[Money problems of Brit found dead with his wife
in their French home: Husband liquidated rental
firm in 2023, 'was seen crying over pension
issue and took months to pay a bill
of several thousand euros']


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-rental.html

…yeah, that’s what some articles were reporting over the last few days that there were ‘pension problems’ and that Andrew Searle was seen by neighbours to be in a few ‘agitated phone calls’ and arguing in English…it just seems odd that it would be a revenge murder relating to his job when he’d been retired and lived there for 10 years…I think what has been confusing is the original reports saying that he had been tortured…

[arista]

[Callum Kerr with his mum Dawn Searle]

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

The Mums Son

Callum Kerr who played George Kiss in Channel 4 Hollyoaks.

….they were only married for a few years, Callum Kerr walked his mum down the aisle, I believe…it’s all very tragic…

[arista]

[arista]

[French prosecutors have revealed how
a British couple died in violent circumstances days
after they were found dead at their
home in rural France.

Andrew and Dawn Searle, in their sixties, were found
by a neighbour at their property in Les Pesquies on Thursday.
The mayor told French television the deaths
were 'clearly a homicide'.

Pathologists working with judges in
Montpellier carried out post-mortem examinations yesterday,
confirming that Ms Searle had ‘severe wound
to the skull caused by several blows caused by
a sharp instrument’ that has not been found.]

[arista]

[Nicolas Rigot-Muller,
the Rodez public prosecutor, said jewellery
and cash was found scattered around
her partially clothed body outside the house.

‘For his part, the body of Andrew Searle was found hanged,
without any trace of defensive wounds,’ said Mr Rigot-Muller.

Investigators have remained tight-lipped about
a possible murder suspect,
with the regional prosecutor refusing
to say whether police are looking for anyone
in connection with the deaths.

CCTV footage is providing vital clues
to solving the mystery, with detectives confident
that any potential killer will have been
picked up at some point by one of the
scores of police, traffic and private cameras
in the area.

Mr Searle, originally from England,
was seen in surveillance footage in
a tobacconist in Villefranche-de-Rouergue just hours
before he died, buying lottery tickets and chocolate.

He had experienced financial problems and had
to liquidate his holiday letting business, it emerged.]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ench-home.html



https://news.sky.com/story/post-mort...rance-13307196

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3lq3lkkn5o

[joeysteele]

Awful.
Sounds really gruesome.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

[Nicolas Rigot-Muller,
the Rodez public prosecutor, said jewellery
and cash was found scattered around
her partially clothed body outside the house.

‘For his part, the body of Andrew Searle was found hanged,
without any trace of defensive wounds,’ said Mr Rigot-Muller.

Investigators have remained tight-lipped about
a possible murder suspect,
with the regional prosecutor refusing
to say whether police are looking for anyone
in connection with the deaths.

CCTV footage is providing vital clues
to solving the mystery, with detectives confident
that any potential killer will have been
picked up at some point by one of the
scores of police, traffic and private cameras
in the area.

Mr Searle, originally from England,
was seen in surveillance footage in
a tobacconist in Villefranche-de-Rouergue just hours
before he died, buying lottery tickets and chocolate.

He had experienced financial problems and had
to liquidate his holiday letting business, it emerged.]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ench-home.html



https://news.sky.com/story/post-mort...rance-13307196

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3lq3lkkn5o

would you buy lottery tickets and chocolates if you were about to commit suicide, it doesn't add up at all, this case is full of twists

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

would you buy lottery tickets and chocolates if you were about to commit suicide, it doesn't add up at all, this case is full of twists

Unless at that particular time he wasn't planing to do it. They could have had an argument later on and he snapped our something else could have happened that made him snap. Not saying that's definitely what happened but just because he bought chocolate and a lottery ticket earlier in the day doesn't mean he couldn't be responsible

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Unless at that particular time he wasn't planing to do it. They could have had an argument later on and he snapped our something else could have happened that made him snap. Not saying that's definitely what happened but just because he bought chocolate and a lottery ticket earlier in the day doesn't mean he couldn't be responsible

Yes....all it takes is a trigger. Its weird that the wife was found battered in the front garden with jewellery and money around her....its almost like it was thrown at her in a fit of rage maybe.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Yes....all it takes is a trigger. Its weird that the wife was found battered in the front garden with jewellery and money around her....its almost like it was thrown at her in a fit of rage maybe.

Yeah, maybe she found out the extent of the financial difficulties and told him she was leaving him. Maybe he was planning it but wanted a bar of chocolate first and one last try to win some money. Again not saying that he definitely did it but it's more common for something like this to happen than a random attack

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah, maybe she found out the extent of the financial difficulties and told him she was leaving him. Maybe he was planning it but wanted a bar of chocolate first and one last try to win some money. Again not saying that he definitely did it but it's more common for something like this to happen than a random attack

Yes could well be
that sad way,

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Unless at that particular time he wasn't planing to do it. They could have had an argument later on and he snapped our something else could have happened that made him snap. Not saying that's definitely what happened but just because he bought chocolate and a lottery ticket earlier in the day doesn't mean he couldn't be responsible

I am leaning to him doing it though there was no weapon found, maybe she was running from him with her jewellery and some money ...I just dont know...you never know what goes on behind closed door they were the perfect couple apparently

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally Posted by Cherie

would you buy lottery tickets and chocolates if you were about to commit suicide, it doesn't add up at all, this case is full of twists

Who knows? Someone in my year committed suicide in 2018, they found that he booked a holiday to Malaysia the morning of.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by *mazedsalv**

Who knows? Someone in my year committed suicide in 2018, they found that he booked a holiday to Malaysia the morning of.

Yeah exactly

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I am leaning to him doing it though there was no weapon found, maybe she was running from him with her jewellery and some money ...I just dont know...you never know what goes on behind closed door they were the perfect couple apparently

He could have killed her in the heat of an argument, panicked and maybe attempted to stage it to look like a robbery gone wrong but later decided it was pointless and ended his own life too

[arista]

Yes the Wife would have been better to sneak
away from him.

Without him knowing.

[arista]

Originally Posted by arista

[Less than 24 hours before he was found dead,
Mr Searle seemed happy and relaxed
as he bought a chocolate bar and two lottery tickets
before thanking the shopkeeper
and going to his car outside where his wife,
aged in her mid-50s, was waiting]

The Face of the Crazy
Man a few days before
the murder of his wife
and then his own hanging

[Ammi]

…several neighbours/villagers have apparently said that Andrew Searle bought the lottery ticket and a bar of chocolate that he like every week or on a regular basis so it could have just been a routine of ‘normality’ that he wanted to keep…the mind is a strange thing in its workings, especially a troubled mind and I know with grief, for instance…we can think of the strangest/most routine/and things of no consequence in grief when our minds are struggling to find a ‘normality’ to hold onto…

[Ammi]

…my thoughts are still that it was a planned killing and suicide…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…several neighbours/villagers have apparently said that Andrew Searle bought the lottery ticket and a bar of chocolate that he like every week or on a regular basis so it could have just been a routine of ‘normality’ that he wanted to keep…the mind is a strange thing in its workings, especially a troubled mind and I knew with grief, for instance…we can think of the strangest/most routine/and things of no consequence in grief when our minds are struggling to find a ‘normality’ to hold onto…

Yes very true

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Sounds grim….poor people.

They knew the wrong people. Utterly sh** scary.

RIP.

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Perhaps someone just got out of Prison

And had a deadly score to settle.

[Ammi]

…the case has apparently been handed over to a new prosecutor/division so I don’t know whether that means that one specific line is being explored more than another…from reports, it’s still feeling that murder of them both is the thing that is being thought the most likely…it’s so odd that no weapon has been found that was used for the head wounds but also that there seems to have been no defence wounds either…what the families must be going through right now is horrendous…

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co....earle-34681934

[Livia]

It's like an episode of Morse in here...