Greek police on Sunday said they had arrested a suspect in their investigation into the death of a British woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Athens last month.<\/p>\n
The police in a statement said they had arrested a 26-year-old man, identified in media reports as an Afghan national, adding that he had \u201cconfessed his actions\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers of the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime have solved the homicide of a 38-year-old UK national, whose body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned building in the Kypseli area on July 18,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
They had opened a criminal file against him for \u201cintentional homicide, robbery and violation of firearms legislation\u201d, they said.<\/p>\n
The woman, identified in media reports as Elisabeth-Jane Ross from Scotland, had gone to Greece on June 26 and stayed at a friend\u2019s home in the Piraeus area until July 10, at which point she departed for an unknown destination within the greater Athens area, they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt emerged that the 26-year-old placed the body in a suitcase and transported it to the abandoned premises. Furthermore, in the days that followed, the 26-year-old used the victim\u2019s bank cards to withdraw sums of money,\u201d the police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek police on Sunday said they had arrested a suspect in their investigation into the death of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[239631,42050,239637,239632,59,57,58,2043,239638,97664,239636,50,48330,200,239635,230335,56,239634,54,239633,55,741],"class_list":["post-724834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-afghan-national","tag-athens","tag-british-woman","tag-elisabeth-jane-ross","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greece","tag-greek-police","tag-interpol","tag-kypseli","tag-news","tag-piraeus","tag-scotland","tag-scotland-police","tag-suitcase","tag-uk","tag-uk-national","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-national-crime-agency","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724834","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=724834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}