Decapitated body of British girl, 17, found hacked to pieces in suitcase in Brazil
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 8:00 PM on 31st July 2008
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Cara Marie Burke arrived in Brazil on a tourist visa three months ago
The decapitated body of a 17-year-old British girl has been found in a suitcase in Brazil, police have said.
The remains of Cara Marie Burke were found by officers in the town of Goiania on Monday, according to Lenita Alves de Brito, a spokeswoman for Goiana's Policia Civil.
The teenager's boyfriend Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos, 20, a Brazilian whose mother lives in London, has been arrested.
Cara Marie Burke arrived in Brazil on a tourist visa three months ago
The decapitated body of a 17-year-old British girl has been found in a suitcase in Brazil, police have said.
The remains of Cara Marie Burke were found by officers in the town of Goiania on Monday, according to Lenita Alves de Brito, a spokeswoman for Goiana's Policia Civil.
The teenager's boyfriend Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos, 20, a Brazilian whose mother lives in London, has been arrested.
Mohamed D'ali Carvalho Santos
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He is reported to have confessed to the killing after she threatened to tell authorities he was a drug dealer, de Brito said.
The Foreign Office said in a statement: 'We can confirm the death of a British national in Goiana in Brazil.
'Next of kin have been informed and we are providing consular assistance to the family.'
Goias state police inspector Jorge Moreira da Silva said officers discovered the torso of Miss Burke in a suitcase by the side of a river 20 miles from the city.
Police were able to identify Cara's body by a tattoo. Cara's mother identified her daughter's body through photos distributed by Interpol.
Burke and dos Santos met in Britain. She arrived in Brazil on a tourism visas three months ago and they had shared an apartment.
Police found drugs in the apartment.
Karine Neves, a spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Brasilia, said a British vice consul is in Goiana, tracking the case and the police investigation.
Goiana is the largest city in the Brazilian state of Goias in western Brazil. It is 120 miles southwest of the capital Brasilia.
Crime is rising at an alarming rate in Brazil and the Foreign Office warns on its website that levels of crime are particularly high in major cities there.
Tourists are warned to avoid going out at night in many Brazilian cities.
He is reported to have confessed to the killing after she threatened to tell authorities he was a drug dealer, de Brito said.
The Foreign Office said in a statement: 'We can confirm the death of a British national in Goiana in Brazil.
'Next of kin have been informed and we are providing consular assistance to the family.'
Goias state police inspector Jorge Moreira da Silva said officers discovered the torso of Miss Burke in a suitcase by the side of a river 20 miles from the city.
Police were able to identify Cara's body by a tattoo. Cara's mother identified her daughter's body through photos distributed by Interpol.
Burke and dos Santos met in Britain. She arrived in Brazil on a tourism visas three months ago and they had shared an apartment.
Police found drugs in the apartment.
Karine Neves, a spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Brasilia, said a British vice consul is in Goiana, tracking the case and the police investigation.
Goiana is the largest city in the Brazilian state of Goias in western Brazil. It is 120 miles southwest of the capital Brasilia.
Crime is rising at an alarming rate in Brazil and the Foreign Office warns on its website that levels of crime are particularly high in major cities there.
Tourists are warned to avoid going out at night in many Brazilian cities.
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