THE HUSBAND of a woman whose body was found in a French lake has not been questioned about her disappearance since police made the grisly discovery.

Robert Lund has admitted he was seen as the main suspect over the death of his wife Evelyn Lund, who went missing from the home they shared in France in December 1999.

But the Foreign Office today confirmed that, despite being questioned in the months after the disappearance, Mr Lund had not been questioned again in the two months since his wife's body was found.

Mrs Lund left her home in Winter Hill, Darwen, to start a new life with Robert in 1996, two years after they married.

Mr Lund, 49, a former tree officer for Blackburn with Darwen Council, has admitted being the prime suspect in the case although insists he has committed no crime.

French police have still not determined what killed Evelyn Lund, 52, whose body was found in October.

Mrs Lund's body was in the back of her red Toyota Landcruiser at the bottom of Bancalie lake -- 15 miles from the remote farmhouse near Toulouse she shared with second husband Robert.

French authorities determined the body was that of Mrs Lund after carrying out DNA tests on the badly-decomposed corpse.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "Tests are still being carried out by the French authorities but the cause of death is still not clear.."

The spokesman added that husband Robert had not been brought in for questioning.

Speaking to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Robert said he had been kept in the dark about the case.