Overview
- Police identified the victim as 38-year-old Elisabeth-Jane Ross and say she was last heard from on July 15 before her body was found in a suitcase on July 18 in the Kypseli district of Athens.
- A 26-year-old Afghan national has been arrested and charged with homicide, robbery and weapons offences and has told investigators he moved the body but denies killing her.
- Authorities say investigators built the case using CCTV showing a man wheeling a large suitcase, ATM footage of withdrawals made with the victim’s cards, phone records and testimony supplied by the suspect’s wife.
- A post-mortem could not give a definitive cause of death because of decomposition, so tissue analysis and toxicology results are being fast-tracked to establish whether asphyxiation or another cause applies.
- Greek police are coordinating with UK consular and law-enforcement partners as the suspect faces further hearings and prosecutors prepare charges based on the accumulating digital, witness and forensic evidence.