An English lady missing, feared murdered

[NormanH]

This has been in the local press for a couple of days, but has now hit the nationals.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/08/28/01016-20120828ARTFIG00411-meurtre-d-une-anglaise-les-sms-inquietants-du-jardinier.php

http://www.midilibre.fr/2012/08/26/une-anglaise-disparue-son-jardinier-suspecte,553155.php

Patricia Wilson who has been living in the Aveyron for about 5 years  is missing but traces of blood have been found, and her gardener is under suspicion.

[Chancer]

I watch a lot of these "presumé innocent" type programs if only to brush up on the 1ere form conditional passé which I find bizaare that they use even when someone has been tried and convicted, there aint a lot else worth watching on French TV.

Anyway dont they need to find the body in pretty much every case to succeed in a prosecution?

In French speak might the possible perpetrator get away with the alleged crime?

[idun]

Might the perptrator get away with the alledged crime?

If he has the misfortune to be maghrebin, then probably not. Is this not another case of a gardener being accused? The last being found guilty, although everything I saw about it was iffy.

 

I do not trust the french judicial system, I know of too many things that have happened over the years to ever trust it.

 

 

[Pickles]

The plot thickens:

http://www.midilibre.fr/2012/08/29/affaire-wilson-un-depit-amoureux-qui-a-mal-fini,554067.php

An affair ended after an alleged attempt to suffocate, a spray of blood in the gardener's car ... Mmmm, wouldn't like to be in his shoes at present.

[Keni]

We had a similar thing here in our village several years ago - a lady disappeared without trace, keys and bag still in house. With house to house searches and even a helicopter brought in she was never found! Hope it will be better news for this lady, but doesn't bode well at the moment.