According to the reports in the newspapers that person did not have anything to eat.
Meeting someone in the restaurant and not eating while the other person eats is rude. Also draws unnecessary attention to the pair on seemingly clandestine meeting.
Something smells like a rotten fish here.
I was not following story to the detail level, but BBC claimed that Police found some ingested objects in his stomach, too large to be ingested unknowingly.
Does anyone know what they were?