Police not ruling out dispute over family inheritance as motive in Alps murders

Police investigating the murders of three members of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps have said they are not ruling out a dispute over a family inheritance as the motive.

Police not ruling out dispute over family inheritance as motive in Alps murders

Police investigating the murders of three members of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps have said they are not ruling out a dispute over a family inheritance as the motive.

It is a year since Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother were shot dead alongside a French cyclist on a remote forest road near Lake Annecy.

The couple's two young daughters survived.

No one has yet been charged with the murder.

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