Man charged in case of body in suitcase

Police in the UK have charged a Lebanese man with the murder of a Canadian-Moroccan singer whose body was found in a suitcase at Heathrow Airport in 1999.

The body of 28-year-old singer Fatima Kama was stuffed in a suitcase which was abandoned on the third floor of the airport parking lot. CBC News reported that Youssef Ahmed Wahid, who had worked as a Kuwait Airways flight attendant, was arrested at his hometown in southern Lebanon, a few days later. He claimed he had nothing to do with the death, but when he was released he went on the run. He was recently arrested in the Gulf state of Bahrain and has now been charged by London's Metropolitan Police. Wahid is now 41 years old. According to the Toronto Sun, his brother Abdel Ahmed, was also arrested in 1999, but was never charged. Kama was born in Morocco, but she and her family moved to Canada about nine years before her death. She had been spending a lot of time in Lebanon, working as a singer at weddings and other private functions. She had been planning to fly to her parents' home in Montreal in 1999.