Posted on 03/20/2008 6:02:21 PM PDT by shhimundercover
Yemeni officials have said they will hand over the prime suspect in the murder of wealthy Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen, despite the absence of an extradition treaty with Britain.
The move comes after it emerged Farouk Abdulhak was smuggled out of the country on a private jet. He left Britain a day before police discovered the 23-year-old's body in the basement of his Great Portland Street flat.
The 21-year-old student and friend of Miss Magnussen fled London on Saturday, apparently flying to Athens before travelling to his native Yemen.
Dr Abu Bakr al-Qurbi, Yemen's foreign minister, said: "It is with regret that we have read about the incident in the newspapers.
"We are prepared to co-operate with British authorities, but for the time being we are awaiting more information about the subject matter."
Met detectives want to question Abdulhak, whose whereabouts are unknown, as a "matter of urgency" after he left a nightclub with Miss Magnussen on Friday.
His father, Arab billionaire Shaher Abdulhak, told the Daily Mail yesterday he would not comment on his son's whereabouts - but said he had hired the London-based international extradition experts Peters & Peters for the case.
Abdulhak's uncle said the family was "very concerned about the state of their son and are awaiting further information to make it clear that they would not associate themselves with any member of their family connected with any wrongdoing."
Farouk disappeared after landing in Yemen aboard at 5.30am on Sunday.
He had been seen leaving the exclusive Maddox club in Mayfair with 23-year-old Miss Magnussen at 3am on Friday and getting into a taxi with her.
Her partially-clothed body was later found under a pile of rubble in the basement of Abdulhak's apartment block in Great Portland Street at 10am on Sunday.
Today police released pictures of Miss Magnussen's clothing and other personal items which were missing from her body.
Good. Glad to hear it.
Yemen would do well to turn him over.
‘Smuggled’ by who?
As observed after 9-11, especially in Europe, we need to look to the "root causes" of crime and terrorism, such as, you know, poverty.
Wow. Good for them. I just said earlier today that they would never hand him over. I’m delighted to be proved wrong about that.
She probably unwittingly said something that dissed his high strung ego so he whaled on her until she was dead. He preferred boys and goats anyway
Wait to see if it happens first.
Their response seemed a bit 'hedged':
"We are prepared to co-operate with British authorities, but for the time being we are awaiting more information about the subject matter."
Arrest the father as an accessory and hold him at least until the son is returned.
This is what they do, plus bonus a white woman, they go to clubs., wear expensive clothes and chase the white European women.Drink drinks, pour the Ruffies, drive sports cars paid for with oil and UNESCO money.They are attracted to western women, the lifestyle, the clothes. But at the same time they hate everything and want to destroy it.I have known a few women who have fallen for their oily charms. Everyone one of them has found a Jekyll and Hide after marriage to their undying regret. Some have escaped with little but anger left, others still bare the physical scars.
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