Peter Allen
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85-year-old Brit 'violently murdered' in village is named as major update issued (opens the original)
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A British pensioner found dead in rural France with "violent facial injuries" has been named. John Agner, 85, was found on Friday night in the garden of his isolated house on the outskirts of Verlus, a village in the south-west Gers department. A 60-year-old suspect, who has not been named, has been arrested in connection with the killing. Mr Agner, a retired wood carver, had been repeatedly beaten around the head, suffering "very violent facial injuries", according to one investigator. Prosecut
3 UK-bound migrants including child die and dozens injured as dinghy capsizes (opens the original)
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Two women and a 10-year-old child have tragically died after a dinghy carrying 105 migrants capsized in the English Channel. The incident happened off the coast of Wissant, a coastal village in northern France's Pas-de-Calais department, on Monday morning. Dozens more people have been injured, a spokesperson for the local prefecture said. The prefecture described the boat as a "water taxi", saying it had arrived relatively empty from an inland waterway before picking up passengers from the beach
Victims of worst Channel migrant boat disaster 'paid £2,500 for place on dinghy' (opens the original)
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Victims of the worst ever English Channel migrant boat disaster paid at least £2,500-a-head for a place on the doomed dinghy, a court heard. Horrific details of the flimsy dinghy's last minutes were outlined on Tuesday, the first day of a criminal trial of 14 alleged people smugglers. The alleged smugglers, mostly Afghans, are accused of organising the fatal journey in November 2021. The defendants face prison sentences for a variety of charges, including involuntary manslaughter, facilitating i
Breakthrough in unsolved bloodbath Alps murder of Brit family as rare gun found (opens the original)
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There has been a major breakthrough in the so-far unsolved murder of a British family in the French Alps 14 years after the bloodbath which claimed four lives. A rare pistol of exactly the same firearm used to kill three members of a British family and a cyclist near Lake Annecy in eastern France has been found at the bottom of a lake close to the crime scene. The major breakthrough comes as the baffling 14-year-old case, dubbed the "Alps Murders" remains unsolved. It was in September 2012 that
'Love rival', 70, charged with murder of Brit expat mum-of-four (opens the original)
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A woman who was ‘a close neighbour’ of a British mother-of-four stabbed to death at her home in France has been charged with her murder. The 70-year-old suspect, who has not yet been formally named, is said to have carried out the killing of Karen Carter, 65, in the village of Trémolat, in the Dordogne, in April 2025. Jacques-Édouard Andrault, the state prosecutor in nearby Périgueux, said the suspect was on Wednesday in custody and being held under suspicion of ‘premeditated murder,’ which can
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