A statement shared on Monday said police "found the body of Mrs Searle, partially undressed, in front of her home" before they found Mr Searle's "body hanging from a radiator inside the property."
Antoine Da Silva, a retired council worker and neighbour of Mr Searle and Mrs Searle, said how he saw the dad-of-two walking quickly through the village making an "agitated" call in the days before he died.
The bodies of Andrew Searle, 62, and his wife Dawn, 56, were found at their holiday home in Les Pesquiès, in southern France, last Thursday.
Numerous mysteries continue to surround the deaths of a British couple found dead at their holiday home in France as police probe a the case as being a possible murder.
Police have revealed how the couple died and that Dawn was found to have sustained a "severe head wound" with "no visible defensive wounds."
