British woman in Kypseli suitcase case travelled via Scotland, not Cyprus

Local CrimeGreecemurderTop Newsuk British woman in Kypseli suitcase case travelled via Scotland, not Cyprus Agglida Kypseli Xrm 1024x575 Relevant News British woman in Kypseli suitcase case travelled via Scotland, not Cyprus 30 July 2026 UCY to offer English-language degrees in medicine, business and economics 30 July 2026 Migrant workers face triple risk of forced labour, Nicosia event hears 30 July 2026 newsroom 30 July 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber The 38-year-old British woman found dead in a suitcase in Kypseli, Athens, travelled to Greece on a flight from Edinburgh, not via Cyprus as initially reported, Greek police have confirmed. The correction comes as investigators continue piecing together the movements of the woman, identified only as E.R., in the days before her body was found, with police now believing she was murdered. She was found in a suitcase inside an abandoned building in Kypseli on Saturday, July 18, by a homeless man. According to his statement, the bag was not there on July 15 or 16, meaning that, if his account is confirmed, the perpetrator moved it there on July 17. Officers from the Homicide Department of the Greek Police’s Security Sub-Directorate (DAOE) are handling the case. They have already been in contact with the woman’s father, who told them his daughter had first been staying with a friendly couple in Keratsini. Authorities quickly located the couple, who gave statements along with a relative of theirs, with nothing incriminating found against them. They provided a key piece of the timeline, telling investigators that on July 15, E.R. left Keratsini saying she was going to stay with American friends in Kypseli. Those same sources said her last contact with friends was on July 15, three days before her body was found. What has led investigators to treat this as a crime is that the woman’s mobile phone continued transmitting a signal until Wednesday morning, when her identity became known. Between July 15 and 29, someone sent messages to her relatives pretending to be her, saying she needed time and wanted to be left alone for a while. The phone’s last signal was in Athens, indicating the perpetrator is moving around the greater Athens area. Police are now searching security camera footage specifically for July 17, focused on the area where they believe the body was brought into the building, and are examining rented rooms and hotels in the vicinity, since the body could not easily have been carried far. Investigators believe the case will be solved in Kypseli, close to where the woman was found. The suitcase itself did not belong to the victim, since she was not carrying large luggage, raising the possibility that it contains genetic material or fingerprints that could help identify the perpetrator or perpetrators. She was born in February 1988. Greek authorities initially want to establish whether she was travelling with someone else on the day she arrived, a detail expected to be confirmed by the airline. Identification After the body was found, Greek authorities took fingerprints, but found no match in the Greek database. A pair of shorts from a French university that she was wearing proved to be a critical clue, and as the international information-sharing process continued, officers increasingly suspected the woman was not Greek. The mystery was resolved on Monday night, when the FBI’s Interpol office in Washington confirmed she was a 38-year-old British woman with the initials E.R. She had been identified through fingerprints she had given to US authorities, as she had been working in the United States, where biometric data is required of employees. Read more: British woman found dead in suitcase entered Greece via Cyprus, police say Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News UCY to offer English-language degrees in medicine, business and economics Migrant workers face triple risk of forced labour, Nicosia event hears How climate change is making Cyprus wildfires harder to control Cyprus: an Israeli plot of land, an Israeli colony? An island of cooperation Defence disputes car lock findings in Xylofagou boys’ deaths case The effort on the Cyprus problem, and its prospects, kept alive Follow en.philenews on Google News and be the first to know all the news about Cyprus and the world.