Woman, 70, charged with murder of British expat Karen Carter in France | UK news
A 70-year-old woman has been accused of murdering British expat Karen Carter, who was found dead in southwestern France last year, according to reports.
according to Dordogne Libre and others, the woman was accused of murdering Carter in Trémolat in the Dordogne on July 2 and is currently in “judicial custody.”
While it was reported that regional prosecutor Jacques-Édouard Andrault confirmed the accusation, it was stated that the suspect was arrested shortly after the murder on April 29 last year, but was released without any charges at that time.
“On July 2, the investigating judge in Périgueux officially charged a woman with murder,” Andrault told reporters.
“This 70-year-old woman, originally from Trémolat, was detained as part of a preliminary investigation on April 30, 2025, before being released,” he added.
“Since then, the investigations carried out within the scope of the judicial investigation opened on May 7, 2025, led the investigating judge to file a case against her,” he said, adding that “this woman was placed under judicial custody.”
Carter, a 65-year-old British-South African national, has run twice. they go (holiday rentals) In the village of Trémolat, a beautifully renovated 250-year-old farmhouse and neighboring 18th-century stone barn, collectively called Les Chouettes.
She was said to be splitting her time between the Dordogne and the home she shares with husband Alan Carter in KuGompo, South Africa.
The autopsy report stated that Carter died from severe blood loss after being stabbed multiple times, collapsing and dying next to his car.
A total of eight serious wounds were reportedly recorded, including “superficial wounds to the chest, abdomen and forearm” as well as “superficial wounds to the thighs, shoulders and thumbs”.
Carter was reportedly at a wine tasting party with about 15 guests, including the village’s mayor, Eric Chassagne, at Cafe Village Trémolat, which is described on Facebook as “an association that wants to offer a meeting place to the people of Trémolat and the surrounding area.”
A few days after the attack, a local woman, then 69, was arrested. He was released without charge a short time later.
It was later revealed that Carter had been discovered by 75-year-old businessman Jean-François Guerrier, with whom she was reportedly in a relationship. The nature of their relationship was picked up and speculated upon by the tabloids.
Carter’s husband, a former London Stock Exchange employee who was in South Africa at the time of the murder, expressed shock at the revelation that his wife had “begun an affair” with another man, saying he realized Guerrier was “just his friend”.
