{"id":724587,"date":"2026-08-02T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:32:08","slug":"man-admits-killing-scottish-woman-found-in-suitcase-greek-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724587\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits killing Scottish woman found in suitcase, Greek police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa had initially stayed in the area of Keratsini, 5.9 miles (9.5km) west of central Athens, with Greek friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had told them that on 15 July she would go to Kypseli, where her &#8220;American friends&#8221; or acquaintances were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday Greek police said they were fast-tracking toxicology reports in order to ascertain the cause of her death, potentially &#8220;in the coming days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Test results can take anywhere from several weeks to a few months depending on the complexity of the case and the workload of forensic laboratories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were also looking to trace Lisa&#8217;s American friends, who they said were also staying in Kypseli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Minister John Swinney called it an &#8220;absolutely appalling case&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa had initially stayed in the area of Keratsini, 5.9 miles (9.5km) west of central Athens, with Greek&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-724587","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\/724587","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=724587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724587\/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=724587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}