A British woman has been found stabbed to death in her home in central Italy, as police search for her missing husband.
Officers discovered Michele Faiers, 66, lying on the floor of her bedroom in a pool of blood on Wednesday. She had several stab wounds to her back.
Colonel Alceo Greco, of Italy’s carabinieri police force, said Ms Faiers’s husband was the prime suspect.
She had been living in the house in Casoli, a small town in Abruzzo, with Michael Whitbread, 74, for the past four years, he added.
Col Greco said that the hunt for Mr Whitbread started as soon as Ms Faiers’s body was discovered.
The couple’s car, a Jeep Compass, was also missing.