Mr Searle was a former financial investigator involved in the battle against organised crime, leading to fears that gangsters arranged a savage professional hit late at night and disappeared unseen. But β despite its rural location β the hamlet is surrounded by police and road video surveillance cameras that operate 24 hours a day. There are also private devices belonging to neighbours of the Searles who often leave their properties empty.
Specialist officers appointed by prosecutors have already started examining days of footage in a radius of at least five-miles around the suspected murder scene. Gendarmes are also making house-to-house enquiries, and collecting all footage available. There was no gun or knife nearby, and β by this weekend β there had been no arrests in connection with the suspected crime.
Mrs Searle is the mum of Callum Kerr , who starred in the Channel 4 soap between and Mr Kerr, who also starred on Netflix's Virgin River, has not spoken publicly about the deaths. Callum, 30, is also a country singer who is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and walked his mum down the aisle when she married Mr Searle in September He added: "Not many people can say they walked their own mother down the aisle.
What a pleasure!! I love you mum. Congrats to Dawn and Andy on their wonderful wedding day and here's to a tremendous life together for the happy couple. The couple had moved to France from Scotland a decade ago after Mr Searle spent his working career involved in 'fight against organised crime and terrorism', according to his LinkedIn profile.
This included taking on major money-laundering syndicates in countries where sanctions have been imposed, such as Russia. On Saturday, the couple's property and surrounding land remained sealed off. He said a neighbour found the bodies at around A forensic doctor working for the judicial authorities in Montpellier arrived at the site by helicopter on Thursday, and is likely to release autopsy results on Monday. There is a swimming pool outside, and then thick woods which put the house in an isolated position, away from the centre of the hamlet, where around people live.
