Man arrested after Briton murdered

A MAN has been arrested after a retired British engineer and golf course designer was found murdered in the Dordogne.

Peter Fuller, 67, had been beaten over the head repeatedly with a “blunt object.” His former handyman – a 30-year-old Englishman - was arrested by police as he got off a plane from Bordeaux at Luton Airport.

Mr Fuller, originally from Chatham, Kent, was an electrical engineer in the oil industry who bought land in the south of the Dordogne to build his perfect golf course.

Les Mirandes Golf and Country Club was made up of the best holes Mr Fuller had played in his travels round the world. He spent five years on the design of the 18-hole course, between Bergerac and Castillonès.

His body was found at the course near Issigeac by his ex-wife when she returned to her home there on Saturday.

Two cars were missing from the site and one, a red Citroën AX, was found crashed about 10km away. Police were still searching for the other one, a Mercedes coupé.