Woman, 69, arrested after Brit mum-of-four, 65, stabbed to death outside home in French village in horror attack
A 69-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested over the brutal killing of Brit mum Karen Carter.
Karen, 65, described by friends as “the embodiment of kindness”, was found stabbed to death outside her French home in the Dordogne.
She was discovered “collapsed and unconscious” near her car in the village of Trémolat, east of Bordeaux, on Tuesday.
French prosecutors now say the suspect, who also lives in Trémolat and was known to the couple, has been detained.
Sylvie Martins-Guedes, the prosecutor for Bergerac, said Karen had “several wounds, of which five were deep and caused by a sharp object, notably to the chest, the groin, the arm and the leg”.
“The wounds revealed a singular violence and their placement showed the desire to kill,” she added.
A murder investigation has been launched, led by officers in Bergerac and Agen.
Karen’s husband Alan, speaking from their home in East London, South Africa, said he learned of his wife’s death via a Facebook post read by a cousin in Yorkshire.
The couple had owned their holiday home in Trémolat for 15 years, splitting time between France and South Africa.
Martins-Guedes said Karen had “started a relationship” with a man in the weeks before her death — a claim Alan strongly denied.
“There was no relationship. He was just a friend of hers,” he said.
The man, who found Karen and called emergency services, was questioned and released without charge.
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