London, October 01: A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of a woman’s badly decomposed body dumped in a suitcase.
Care worker Leah Questin was last seen on September 12 leaving a Tube station
The remains of Leah Questin were found in the case in a dried-up pond on farmland in Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent, last Thursday.
Ms Questin was a 37-year-old care worker who lived near Cricklewood, north London, but was originally from the Philippines.
The 35-year-old suspect was arrested at an address in Lewisham, south east London, this morning.
He remains in custody at a north London police station.
Results of a post mortem last week proved inconclusive and forensic tests are going on to establish Ms Questin’s cause of death.
The suitcase was found on farmland
Ms Questin was reported missing by a friend at around midday on September 12 after last being seen at her home address.
Through CCTV footage, police have established that she travelled alone on the 172 bus shortly after leaving Elephant and Castle Tube station.
Det Chief Insp Peter Lansdown, of the Met Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command unit, said Ms Questin was heading south but was not clear where she was going.
—Agencies