Brit held in Ibiza over body-in-a-suitcase Thai murder

MADRID: Police in Ibiza detained a British man Thursday wanted over the murder of a woman in Thailand whose body was found dismembered in a suitcase in 2014.
The Guardia Civil police force said Shane Looker, 46, the subject of an international arrest warrant over the murder of Laxami Manochat and, was tracked down in Ibiza, one of Spain's Balearic Islands.
"They found this person's vehicle, he went to service his car at a garage and was detained," a Guardia Civil spokeswoman told AFP.
Looker has been jailed pending extradition proceedings.
According to the local Chiangrai Times in Thailand, Manochat's body was dismembered and stuffed in a suitcase that was found floating in the Mae Klong River in Kanchanaburi west of Bangkok.
The report said security camera footage showed her leaving a bar zone in Bangkok with a "male foreigner" on the evening of Nov 1, 2014, and both got into a taxi to Kanchanaburi.
The man was later identified as Looker. — AFP