{"id":719241,"date":"2026-07-30T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:00:09","slug":"greek-police-probe-foul-play-in-death-of-woman-found-in-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719241\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek police probe &#8216;foul play&#8217; in death of woman found in suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Minister John Swinney said Ross&#8217;s family would be supported by the Scottish government and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;This is an absolutely appalling case that has been reported overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And obviously I&#8217;m deeply concerned that such a tragedy has taken place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helena Smith, The Guardian&#8217;s correspondent in Athens, told BBC Radio Scotland that the body was found in a derelict building in downtown Athens, &#8220;in an area that is booming, full of Airbnbs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It is very popular with people travelling through Athens and young foreigners who have elected to make the Greek capital their home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith said that Ross had family in Edinburgh and &#8220;connections&#8221; to Greece &#8211; staying with a friend in Athens before she disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;It would seem that someone had control over her mobile phone after she died and was sending messages to distract the authorities and close friends from trying to track her down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Minister John Swinney said Ross&#8217;s family would be supported by the Scottish government and the Foreign and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}