Ex-husband of woman shot dead in Alps died the same day

Detectives investigating the killing of a British engineer and his family in the Alps have revealed his wife was previously married to a man who died the same day as the shootings.

Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Ikbal, 47, and her mother were shot dead along with a French cyclist on a forest road near Annecy in eastern France almost two years ago.

The Surrey couple’s two young daughters survived the attack which has so far gone unsolved.