GUILTY UK - Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, found dead in shallow grave, Kew, 7 March 2019

[HayLouise]

'Last Wednesday I saw her as I was leaving and she was with this scruffy looking geezer. He was 5ft 10 and was holding one of the dogs by a lead. I did not speak to him'.

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Some more photos:

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Mr Watkins said he had been told other neighbours had previously complained about her two dogs barking.

One neighbour in her sixties said: 'She lived there for about 18 months - you barely saw her, but you could hear her.

'She always spoke in French and was very loud, chatting on the phone at all hours. I used to see her walking her dogs, one rottweiler and one husky, they were beautiful, they didn't make a lot of noise.

'She was on her own as far as I'm aware, I never saw anyone coming in an out apart from her.

Another neighbour said: 'There's not much I can say other than she was nice enough, I used to say hello.

'She lived alone I think. Nobody else was there but the dogs, she loved them.'

A single reclinable sofa chair could be seen outside the terraced house where the victim was believed to have lived.

The small front garden of the two-storey open brick house, worth more than £800,000 and which had been split into two flats, was overgrown with grass and plants.

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Police forensics remove items from athe property on Darell Road in Kew, south-west London where the body of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave



Detectives can be seen walking around the crime scene with clipboards - as police patrol the surrounding area.

Neighbour Bob Bassett, 75, said that he knew of Ms Garcia-Bertaux, and would speak to her about her two large dogs.

'She was quiet. I never saw a boyfriend,' he said, adding that as far as he knows she lived in the ground-floor flat alone, and was originally from France.

Another neighbour who did not want to be named said he had previously seen her with a leonberger - a large breed of dog.

He said others on the street have told him they had seen a man visiting the property 'now and again', and added: 'I did not see her very much.'

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

A blue forensics tent was erected near to where Ms Garcia-Bertaux' body was discovered last night. A police cordon has been erected sealing off the area

Forensics officers in blue suits could be seen erecting a large tent, with evidence markers visible down the narrow alley between a number of homes

On her social media profiles Ms Garcia-Bertaux described herself as a line producer for short films, an executive assistant, a PR and marketing worker and a lifestyle blogger and fashion stylist.

Her LinkedIn page said she had been working as an executive assistant at the London PR agency Golin since January.

She also founded a video and online production firm called Black Balloons Studios in October last year, and runs a fashion and lifestyle blog called Style & T.

Her profile on the film industry website IMDb said she was born on November 25, 1984, in Aix-en-Provence in southern France and had lived in Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean.

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

A forensic tent was spotted in the garden of the house in Kew where the body of Ms Garcia-Bertaux was discovered



The profile said she moved to London in 2009 to pursue a career in the 'creative industry', aspiring to be a film director and screenwriter.

It said her film credits include the movies Tower Block, staring Sheridan Smith and Jack O'Connell, and Gerry, starring Joan Collins.

Ms Garcia-Bertaux, who had a Rottweiler named Jazz, had been a dancer for almost 20 years. She performed in a cover band called The Tams and wrote her own music.

She was also a dog lover, and in her final post last month she wrote: 'Every morning I'm struggling to get out of bed for this one! It's so hard to resist to cuddle him.'

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Police activity at the property on Darell Road in Kew, south-west London where the body of Ms Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave in the garden



Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[HayLouise]

Her body was discovered in a garden in Darell Road (pictured) in Kew, south-west London. So far there have been no arrests

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[jessie]

Police activity at the property on Darell Road in Kew, south-west London where the body of Ms Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave in the garden



Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

So this is the garden of her flat. Her home where she was found buried..

A murder probe has been launched after the body of a film producer who has worked with Joan Collins and Sheridan Smith was found in a shallow grave at her £400,000 home two days after she was reported missing.

Laureline Garcia Bertaux, 34, was found buried in the garden of her house on a tree-lined street in the wealthy suburb of Kew in south-west London.

 

[HayLouise]

16:24

KEY EVENT

Everything we know so far as pictures show forensic teams looking for clues
What we know so far here and all the pictures and videos from a disturbing day here.

(Image: Darren Pepe)

Police find woman's body in shallow grave in Kew

 

[jessie]

Police forensics remove items from athe property on Darell Road in Kew, south-west London where the body of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave



Detectives can be seen walking around the crime scene with clipboards - as police patrol the surrounding area.

Neighbour Bob Bassett, 75, said that he knew of Ms Garcia-Bertaux, and would speak to her about her two large dogs.

'She was quiet. I never saw a boyfriend,' he said, adding that as far as he knows she lived in the ground-floor flat alone, and was originally from France.

Another neighbour who did not want to be named said he had previously seen her with a leonberger - a large breed of dog.

He said others on the street have told him they had seen a man visiting the property 'now and again', and added: 'I did not see her very much.'

Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

BBM
Sounds like a street of very near neighbours who are at home mostly imo, so hope some valuable witness evidence has been noticed. jmo

 

[smucklecrumble]

Her brother lives in London too, so he could be the gentleman seen visiting her. When I worked with her she lived with her boyfriend at the property (they had been together long enough for her to say they were talking about kids) and had just adopted the second dog. She loved her dogs so much, I hope they are being well cared for.

I also pray that she is at peace and the killer is apprehended swiftly.

It’s not fully sunken in yet.....

 

[Officer Dibble]

Why are people thought of as easily expendable these days? Happens far too much. Poor woman. And her dogs must have been distressed. Assuming they were home alone? Were her dogs found?

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Woman found buried in shallow grave ‘due to meet man night before going missing’ - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
"A woman found buried in a shallow grave had been due to meet a man for coffee the night before she was reported missing, according to a friend."
“We’re not sure when the murder took place, whether it was Saturday night or Sunday night.

“She was meant to move out of that house on Monday morning.”

"Mr Hughes said he found the proposed meeting before his friend’s murder “a bit suspicious” and said he had been told the man was a “charismatic” vet.


“She met him in a shop or something like that and then he must have chatted to her then and they arranged a coffee on Sunday evening,” he said.

“We don’t know if she went out to meet him or not because we don’t know what the point was when that happened.”

 

[overthemoon]

Her friend Daniel Hughes, 27, said he had spoken to her best friend, who reported her missing.

It was her best friend who reported her missing. Did she make it to the shopping trip in Oxford Street on Sunday?

'I think the last point the CCTV caught her was outside a Sainsbury's on Saturday evening in Richmond,' he said.

'She was meant to go shopping in Oxford Street on Sunday, daytime. She was meant to meet a man for coffee on the Sunday evening. We're not sure when the murder took place, whether it was Saturday night or Sunday night.

'She was meant to move out of that house on Monday morning.'

So, she was preparing to vacate that property?

Mr Hughes said he found the proposed meeting before his friend's murder 'a bit suspicious' and said he had been told the man was a 'charismatic' vet.

If you are describing a potential date to an ex colleague, are you likely to use the word ‘charismatic’? I wonder if that’s the exact word Laureline used.

'She met him in a shop or something like that and then he must have chatted to her then and they arranged a coffee on Sunday evening,' he said.

'We don't know if she went out to meet him or not because we don't know what the point was when that happened.'

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Mr Hughes, who said he previously worked with Ms Garcia-Bertaux at the Discovery Channel, said she was single and lived alone with her two dogs.

'She's tall, got a lot of presence. Always very friendly, very talkative, would never have hurt anyone.

'Got a lot of confidence and passion, a lovely lady. She had a lot of friends as well, including me,' he said.

Is it common to put an emphasis on it?

'I'm pretty harrowed about it. I've been in that house, I've been in that garden. It's creepy, it's upset me quite a lot.'


Murder probe is launched after body of woman is found in a shallow grave | Daily Mail Online

 

[overthemoon]

Oooops, dotr and I posted the same thing at the same time !!

 

[dotr]

Oooops, dotr and I posted the same thing at the same time !!

Yes, but you posted responses to the article which i agreed with, but did not post!

 

[overthemoon]

Yes, but you posted responses to the article which i agreed with, but did not post!

Sorry. I just edited mine.

Added the article I referenced to - DM.

 

[Officer Dibble]

I'm wondering as a dog lover....did a dog knapper get involved and she fought for those dogs? Anyone know if the dogs were found in her house and if they were okay?

On another note, I don't know the rules about Blogs on here but what was her fashion blog name and I wonder the last content on her blog?