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Photograph: Jean-loup Gautreau/AFP</p> </div> <p></p><p>A British man who appealed against his conviction for killing his wife and dumping her body in a lake was tonight found guilty by a jury at his retrial in Toulouse, south-west France.</p><p>Robert Lund was jailed for 12 years over the killing of his wife.</p><p>Evelyn Lund, 52, went missing from the farmhouse she shared with her husband in the remote village of Rayssac, south-west France, on 29 December 1999.</p><p>Her decomposed body was found almost two years later, on the back seat of her Toyota Landcruiser in a lake, 15 miles away.</p><p>Lund, 57, was cleared of murder but convicted of involuntary homicide, akin to manslaughter, in October 2007. He returned to court in Toulouse on Monday in an attempt to prove his innocence. Lund told the court his wife's death was a "tragic accident" and that she had taken a wrong turn in her 4x4 in stormy conditions.</p><p>Her body was discovered when a horse rider spotted her car after a severe drought had caused the water level of Lake Bancalie to fall by 30ft.</p><p>The couple moved to France in 1997 to start a new life together but their relationship was strained by Evelyn Lund's heavy drinking, the court heard.</p><p>Robert Lund, originally from Darwen, Lancashire, said his wife drank because she had not come to terms with the death of her first husband and would become "very violent" when intoxicated. He said she been drinking wine before she got behind the wheel to drive home from a friend's house on the night of her death and never arrived at the Fin Voyage – Journey's End – farmhouse which they shared.</p><p>The examining magistrate, Gisele Seban, accused him of telling "manifest lies". Traces of blood found on his wife's clothing and the back seat of the 4x4 showed she had died as a result of violence, said the prosecutor. 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