UK police charge Lebanese man in case of Canadian singer whose body was found in suitcase

UK police charge man in 1999 suitcase murder

LONDON — The Metropolitan Police say they have charged a Lebanese man with murder in the case of a Canadian singer whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase at London’s Heathrow Airport in 1999.

The force said Wednesday that 41-year-old Youssef Ahmed Wahid had been charged with the murder of 28-year-old Fatima Kama, whose body was found in a suitcase abandoned on the third floor of an airport parking lot.

Wahid, a former Kuwait Airways flight attendant, was arrested within days of the discovery at his hometown of Ramadiyeh in southern Lebanon, where he denied having anything to do with the killing.

He was eventually released and then went on the run. Police tracked him to the Gulf state of Bahrain, where he was arrested last month.