Masked French police have taken the man who admitted beheading a businessman to the suspect’s home to search it.

French police were questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two young children.

A British father is being questioned in France on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children, local police said.

The British Foreign Office is “urgently” investigating reports that a British man has been arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children in France.