{"id":64517,"date":"2025-05-01T02:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64517\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T02:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:32:18","slug":"british-woman-65-has-been-found-beaten-to-death-at-home-in-french-village-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64517\/","title":{"rendered":"British woman, 65, has been found &#8216;beaten to death&#8217; at home in French village | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year-old British woman was found beaten to death at her home in southwestern <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a>. A friend found the woman lying near her vehicle with five deep wounds caused by a blunt object in the village of Tremolat in the Dordogne.<\/p>\n<p>She was found on Tuesday evening state prosecutor Sylvie Martins Guedes said in a statement. Authorities have now opened a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder<\/a> investigation, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: &#8220;Her wounds indicated a particularly violent attack and their locations showed an intention to kill.\u00a0Investigations are underway to identify and detain the perpetrator of this crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman had lived in the Dordogne department of France for several years and was a mother of four, a neighbour revealed.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered multiple wounds to her chest, groin, arm and leg, the Bergerac prosecutor&#8217;s office has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One neighbour told French news outlet\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudouest.fr\/dordogne\/tremolat\/meurtre-d-une-femme-en-dordogne-elle-etait-aimee-de-tous-le-choc-dans-un-petit-village-24243043.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Sud Ouest<\/a>\u00a0that everything was calm when they closed their blinds at 9pm but by 11pm, there were flashing lights from emergency services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They revealed: &#8220;The police then rang my doorbell around midnight to see if I had noticed anything suspicious, but I didn&#8217;t see or hear anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest news and breaking news visit:\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/news<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up to date with all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow our social media accounts here on\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/DailyExpress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/DailyExpress<\/a>\u00a0and @daily_express<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old British woman was found beaten to death at her home in southwestern France. A friend found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1500,188,2000,299,36,1619],"class_list":{"0":"post-64517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-murder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114430236581383942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}