Final encounters of ‘lovely’ British couple found dead at their French home: How expats bought chocolate and lottery tickets hours before their bodies were found – as their tragic demise continues to baffle police and their neighbours

It is more than a week since Andrew Searle called in to the shop near his home in rural France for the very last time.

Chatting in French to shopkeeper Isabelle Palazy with a breezy familiarity, he is silently captured on the store’s CCTV buying his customary pair of €3 lottery tickets and his favourite chocolate bars.