Voice recordings are being used by detectives trying to unlock the murders of a British family on holiday in the Alps, it emerged today.
Investigators remain baffled as to why three members of a British-Iraqi family were shot dead close to Lake Annecy, in eastern France, a year ago.
But at a joint Anglo-French press briefing today they said that Saad Al-Hilli, a 50-year-old engineer from Surrey who was among the victims, kept “meticulous recordings” of all of his conversations up until the massacre.
Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud said a that a bitter inheritance dispute between Saad and his brother Zaid Al-Hilli, 54, was a key line of inquiry.
Zaid was arrested in June under suspicion of conspiracy to murder, and is currently on police bail. He denies any wrongdoing.
Mr Al-Hilli was killed in the attack by a gunman, along with his wife Ikbal, 47, and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, 74. French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, was also killed in the shootings which orphaned Mr Al-Hilli’s daughters, Zainab, eight, and Zeena, five.
