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Murder

Neighbour held after missing British man's body found in well in France

The unnamed 71-year-old has been missing since November.

A 28-YEAR-OLD Frenchman suspected of killing his British neighbour, who has been missing since November, has been detained after a body was discovered in his well, prosecutors said.

The unemployed suspect was detained on Wednesday and told police he had had a row with his neighbour in the northwestern village of Pierres, local prosecutor Carole Etienne told AFP.

“He admits he put the body in the well,” she added, saying it was “highly probable” that the corpse was that of his unnamed British neighbour, born in 1944.

But “he has not yet explained the circumstances of the death. I have the before, I have the after, I don’t have the in-between.”

Etienne said an autopsy of the body was underway and results were expected late this evening.

According to local radio France Bleu Basse-Normandie, the British man had been living in France for 15 years.

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