THE remains of a missing Brit have reportedly been found in a well more than 25 years after he disappeared in Brittany.
Anthony Rickard’s skeleton was found on May 19 at the home he had shared with his partner, Heather Comins.
Anthony Rickard’s skeleton was found on May 19 after he went missing in 2001, he is pictured with his daughter Mary Rickard Credit: Facebook
His daughter Mary has been looking for him for 25 years Credit: Facebook
She has now been put behind bars as cops launch a formal into Anthony’s death – she is suspected of his murder.
The Brit dad had moved to with Heather and their two kids in 2001.
But soon after making the move across the channel Anthony disappeared completely.
Mary Rickard, his daughter from a previous relationship, has been searching for her dad ever since.
She reported him missing at the time, but her stepmother Heather claimed he had simply left home with no explanation.
Mary said she had known the couple was “going through a rough patch”.
She claimed that Heather and Anthony’s son – her half-brother – had made a shocking confession.
Mary told prosecutors in December that he claimed Heather had admitted killing Anthony because he was “an alcoholic and violent”.
She said Heather had told her half brother about her alleged crime when he was 12 years old.
Anthony had allegedly pointed a gun at Heather, before she turned it on him.
The son allegedly told Mary that she then “left the body in her room for three days”.
He claimed Heather then hid the body in the well.
It was reportedly found buried “32 to 49ft” deep in the well earlier this week, 25 years after Anthony’s disappearance.
Investigators said the matched showed that the skeleton was a parental relation to Mary and that its leg had a pin in that matched one in Anthony’s.
Heather requested bail on the grounds that she worked at an industrial bakery.
She said she “never returns to ” and is not a flight risk.
But she was kept in custody without bail as cops question her about her partner’s mysterious death.
Anthony’s daughter Mary, who had written to French authorities last year, shared jubilant reaction on social media, saying: “Justice will be served!!!”
She added an emotional tribute to her dad, writing: “But i will remain and always will be my fathers daughter who has now lost their dad, their best friend and that can never change!
“I will miss him everyday till the day we are reunited!”
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Eze Chidiebere Paul
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