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Uber driver confesses to killing British diplomat in Beirut, says source
Source: The Guardian
Uber driver confesses to killing British diplomat in Beirut, says source
Lebanese man named as Tariq H arrested after body of Rebecca Dykes was found by a motorway over weekend
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Alexandra Topping
Monday 18 December 2017 14.09 GMT
A Lebanese Uber driver has confessed to killing a British diplomat in Beirut, a judicial source has told the Guardian.
The body of Rebecca Dykes was found on the side of a motorway in the early hours of Saturday morning. Local police suggested she had been strangled.
Her body was found without any identity papers on the Metn highway, which leads out of the Lebanese capital to the north-eastern suburbs. A postmortem suggested she had died at about 4am on Saturday.
Dykes, who was believed to be 30 years old, had spent the evening with friends at a cafe in Gemmayze, a district of Beirut known for its bars and restaurants. She is thought to have left on her own at around midnight.
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Lebanese man named as Tariq H arrested after body of Rebecca Dykes was found by a motorway over weekend
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Alexandra Topping
Monday 18 December 2017 14.09 GMT
A Lebanese Uber driver has confessed to killing a British diplomat in Beirut, a judicial source has told the Guardian.
The body of Rebecca Dykes was found on the side of a motorway in the early hours of Saturday morning. Local police suggested she had been strangled.
Her body was found without any identity papers on the Metn highway, which leads out of the Lebanese capital to the north-eastern suburbs. A postmortem suggested she had died at about 4am on Saturday.
Dykes, who was believed to be 30 years old, had spent the evening with friends at a cafe in Gemmayze, a district of Beirut known for its bars and restaurants. She is thought to have left on her own at around midnight.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/suspect-arrested-over-death-of-british-diplomat-rebecca-dykes-in-beirut