MAKKAH: Police arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the recent abduction and murder of a woman teacher in Makkah, Al-Madinah newspaper reported yesterday.
The 38-year-old woman did not return home after she left the Faculty of Literature and Management Sciences at Umm Al-Qura University where she worked as a lecturer, her relatives complained to police two weeks ago, according to an informed source.
Police detectives traced the disappearance to a man in whose car they found the woman’s mobile phone and handbag containing her ATM card.
The suspect reportedly confessed to the detectives that he murdered the lecturer and led them to a desert location where the body was buried. Police exhumed the body, the source said.
The motive of the murder is not yet clear though the suspect and his wife allegedly made a failed attempt to steal money from the teacher’s account.
In his confession statement, the suspect said he sent his wife to the bank impersonating the woman to learn the victim’s ATM secret number.
She pretended to have forgotten her secret number and requested a bank official to help her withdraw some money, which she said she needed urgently but did not have time to go home and get the forgotten number. But when the teller insisted on seeing her ID card before helping her she left the counter.
Makkah police spokesman Maj. Abdul Muhsin Al-Mayman said details of the crime would be released after the investigation is completed.
