French police formally investigate woman over 2025 killing of Briton

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Karen Carter was found with stab wounds in the Dordogne village she had lived in for over a decade.

A pistillate has been placed nether ceremonial probe implicit the decease past twelvemonth successful France of a British-South African mother-of-four.

Karen Carter, 65, was recovered lying adjacent her car with stab wounds by a person successful Trémolat, the Dordogne colony wherever she had lived for implicit a decennary and managed 2 vacation rental homes.

Prosecutors accidental the 70-year-old pistillate was primitively taken into custody successful 2025 arsenic portion of preliminary inquiries earlier being released.

Jacques-Edouard Andrault, the investigating justice successful the case, said successful a connection connected Wednesday that "the investigations conducted arsenic portion of the judicial enquiry opened connected 7 May, 2025, person led the investigating justice to formally complaint her".

At the clip of the sidesplitting successful April 2025, Mrs Carter's husband, Alan, said that helium archetypal heard of her decease erstwhile a relative contacted him aft speechmaking astir the decease connected a section assemblage Facebook page.

He said helium received confirmation of the decease aft his adjunct phoned section police.

Describing his woman arsenic an outgoing, affable idiosyncratic who "wouldn't wounded a fly", helium said her decease has been "traumatic" for his family.

"I'm an introvert, and she's the nonstop opposite. She's an extrovert, she loves people, she loves to person fun. People emotion her, she has a bully heart," helium said.

"She's the 1 who would bring location the mislaid dog, oregon cat, oregon whatever. She's that benignant of person. Everyone liked her. That's wherefore I joined her. She's conscionable lovely."