{"id":7036,"date":"2025-07-18T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/7036\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:04:16","slug":"british-woman-in-her-20s-is-found-dead-behind-church-during-family-holiday-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/7036\/","title":{"rendered":"British woman in her 20s &#8216;is found dead behind church during family holiday to France&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-263\/james-clark-reynolds.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAMES REYNOLDS<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=JimReynoldsUK&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  10:56 EDT, 18 July 2025   |  Updated:  11:50 EDT, 18 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A British woman in her 20s has been found dead behind a church in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/france\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6251d250-63e7-11f0-8b34-1b0ebe756321\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The woman, who has not been named, is understood to have been on holiday in Normandy at the time of her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was found by a walker around 9am this morning on the rocks below the\u00a0St-Nicolas church in\u00a0Barfleur, where she was reportedly staying with her partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sources close to the investigation told <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/societe\/faits-divers\/le-corps-dune-femme-sans-vie-retrouve-dans-les-rochers-a-barfleur-en-normandie-ce-que-lon-sait-12d38866-63df-11f0-a22a-0b5a062166ac\">Ouest France<\/a> that the woman is believed to have drowned.\u00a0The church overlooks the Channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Criminal investigators joined forensic and research reams, as well as gendarmerie, at the scene before the body was removed for autopsy this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The cause of death was initially &#8216;somewhat unclear&#8217;, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/france3-regions.franceinfo.fr\/normandie\/manche\/le-cadavre-d-une-touriste-britannique-decouvert-en-bord-de-mer-a-barfleur-3190083.html\">France3 <\/a>reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The woman&#8217;s partner was taken into care, local media reports.They were reportedly staying with her family in a rented cottage near the port.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-98a34d5a38798fff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100433765-0-image-a-28_1752850532233.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"File photo: Barfleur in Normandy, France. Undated.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">File photo: Barfleur in Normandy, France. Undated.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4faa72c64f323533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100434999-14919007-image-a-37_1752853180787.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"File photo: The\u00a0Saint Nicolas church in Barfleur, Normandy. Undated.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">File photo: The\u00a0Saint Nicolas church in Barfleur, Normandy. Undated.<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police are now conducting interviews as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Authorities were still on the scene around 2pm, according to<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamanchelibre.fr\/actualite-1181861-cotentin-une-jeune-anglaise-retrouvee-noyee-a-barfleur\"> Le Manche Libre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Barfleur is a small fishing village of some 700 residents in the north of France, largely untouched by tourism and rated one of the country&#8217;s most attractive communes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">MailOnline approached the local gendarmerie for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">This news is breaking: more to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        British woman in her 20s &#8216;is found dead behind church during family holiday to France&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JAMES REYNOLDS Published: 10:56 EDT, 18 July 2025 | Updated: 11:50 EDT, 18 July 2025 A British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97,819,49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-7036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}