Scots woman found dead in France alongside husband amid fears of organised crime gang attack

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A woman from Scotland has been found dead alongside her organised crime investigator husband in their home in France. Dawn Searle, also known as Dawn Kerr, was a project manager originally from Musselburgh near Edinburgh.

Dawn was discovered dead at the property, wtih her husband Andrew in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue on Thursday afternoon.Andrew was originally from West Sussex but spent years working in Edinburgh at a major bank.

It's understood the pair, who were both in their 60s, retired to France around 10 years ago.Andrew spent at least 20 years working with police and the Serious Fraud Office against organised crime groups involved in financial crimes such as money laundering.

This included work in ‘sanctions screening’, which is the process of checking individuals and groups who might be barred from dealing in the UK because of their links with rogue nations, terrorist groups or drugs traffickers.It's understood this would have brought Andrew to the notice of underworld networks working across the globe.