No UK charges for Alps murder victim's brother

The brother of a British-Iraqi man mysteriously gunned down with his family in the French Alps in 2012 said he was "relieved" today after being told he would not face charges from British police.
Zaid al-Hilli, who was arrested in June last year on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, had his bail cancelled because there was not enough evidence to charge him, Britain's Surrey Police said in a statement.
"At this stage there is insufficient evidence to charge him with any criminal offence and no further police action is being taken at this time," it said.
But the prosecutor in charge of the French probe said he had not been exonerated as far as they were concerned.

And a source close to the investigation voiced frustration, telling AFP that Hilli "has not replied in a clear and precise way to several fundamental questions, particularly relating to his whereabouts at the time".
Saad al-Hilli was shot dead along with his wife and her mother in September 2012 in a woodland car park close to the village of Chevaline, in the hills above Lake Annecy in southeast France.

His two daughters, aged seven and four at the time, survived the gruesome attack but French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, apparently an innocent bystander, was also killed.
The Hilli brothers were engaged in a bitter inheritance dispute which French investigators believed was the motive behind the killings.

Zaid al-Hilli listened Wednesday as an officer read out the statement to media waiting outside the police station in Guildford, southwest of London.
"This remains a French-led investigation and officers from the Surrey and Sussex major crime team continue to work closely with the French authorities," the statement said.
"We have carried out exhaustive enquiries in the UK on a number of active lines of enquiry."
Asked outside his home how he felt, Hilli replied: "Really just relieved, that is all."
He has publicly protested his innocence, accusing French investigators of a cover-up.
In October he told BBC television: "They are covering up for someone in France in that region and they know it.

"Sylvain Mollier was involved in family disputes and was an outsider to (his) rich family. There is something more to it locally...Most crime has local roots.