Man arrested in major update after British woman found dead in suitcase

The body of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, 38, from the Edinburgh area, was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in a derelict building in the Kypseli area of Athens

Elisabeth-Jane Ross was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man.

The body of Elizabeth Jane Ross, from Scotland, was found by a homeless man in the district of Kypseli in the Greek capital on Saturday, July 18.

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A man has been arrested over the death of a British woman, whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in an abandoned building in Athens.

Elisabeth Jane Ross, a 38-year-old Scottish woman found dead in a suitcase in an abandoned building in Athens, has been remembered as a "kind soul" with a "beautiful heart" by devastated friends and family, as Greek police investigate the circumstances of her death