Killer of Scots woman and husband found dead in France 'definitely caught on camera'

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The killer of a Scots woman and her husband found dead in their home in rural France was ‘definitely caught on camera at some point’, detectives believe.

The bodies of Andrew and Dawn Searle, who were both in their 60s, were discovered in horrific circumstances in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, on Thursday, the Mirror reports.

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 – despite its rural location – 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. "It would be absolutely impossible to get in or out without being filmed," an investigating source said on Saturday. "The likelihood is that a car was used, but even if someone managed to get across the countryside on foot, they were definitely caught on camera at some point."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.