Andrew Searle, retired fraud investigator, and wife Dawn found dead in their renovated rural home in south-west France

French police are investigating the deaths of a retired British couple whose bodies were found in their renovated rural home in Aveyron in south-west France.

Andrew Searle, a retired fraud investigator, and his wife Dawn were discovered dead on Thursday at their home in the village of Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue.