‘Idyllic' Dordogne village stunned by British woman's stab death
A group of female players from Les Reines du Foot — the Queens of Football — walked along the cobbled streets of Trémolat arm in arm, wiping away each other's tears with their jerseys.
The team, formed of women aged over 50 in the sleepy village in the Dordogne area of southwest France, were packing a van for their first away match without their British player and neighbour Karen Carter, who was stabbed to death this week.
'We are so devastated, we loved her,' one player said before rushing off to console the group.
Carter, 65, a mother of four, was discovered 'collapsed and unconscious' between her car and home on Tuesday. A post-mortem examination found that she suffered eight stab wounds across her thigh
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