A murder inquiry is underway after a holidaymaker from Colchester was found dead outside a hotel in France.
The man, who is understood be 50-year-old John Napoletani, left the Formula 1 hotel in Dole, near to the Swiss border, late on Saturday (October 25) after drinking wine with his wife and other guests at tables outside the front door
Reports suggest he was found in a pool of blood early the next day
"I am devastated," his wife, Evelyn Napoletani, told The Daily Telegraph.
"It's like a nightmare. I keep thinking I am going to wake up and it's all been a bad dream."
The couple had been driving back home from a holiday in Italy and had just stopped off at the hotel for the night, it is reported
