Greek police have arrested a man in connection with the ‘intentional homicide’ of a British woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Athens.
Elisabeth Jane Ross, 38, who was also known as Lisa, was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in an abandoned car park in the Kypseli district of Athens on 18 July.
The man arrested is reported to be a 26-year-old Afghan national who confessed to the killing. He is believed to have met Ms Ross through her work helping refugees and homeless people.
He was detained at an address in central Athens, with police revealing that he had withdrawn money using Ms Ross’s bank cards, which helped them track his movements.
Her body was discovered on July 18, three days after telling Greek friends she had been staying with outside Athens that she was going to Kypseli to visit American friends.
Police said in a statement that the man had been arrested for ‘intentional homicide’, robbery and weapons offences.
The statement added: ‘A 26-year-old foreign national has been identified in connection with the case; a criminal file has been opened against him for intentional homicide, robbery, and violations of weapons legislation.’
Intentional homicide in Greek law is understood to be the equivalent of murder.
Police revealed that fingerprint evidence was discovered on the suitcase, while CCTV footage showed the man carrying it to the abandoned car park.
‘He was brought to the Division’s headquarters on Thursday, July 30, 2026, and confessed to his actions,’ the statement continued.
‘It was established that the 26-year-old placed the body in a suitcase and transported it to the abandoned site. Furthermore, in the days that followed, he used the victim’s bank cards to withdraw cash.
‘During searches conducted at his residence, a replica pistol and a knife were found and seized; consequently, he was arrested for violating the law on weapons.’
Ms Ross, a committed Christian, had been regularly visiting Greece for the past seven years, working with organizations helping refugees and other vulnerable groups.
She arrived in Athens on June 26 and was staying with Greek friends in the suburb of Keratsini, close to the country’s main seaport.
However, she then told them on July 15 she was leaving to stay with Americans she knew in Kypseli – a more central part of Athens – and was discovered dead 72 hours later.
It has emerged that Ms Ross had regularly volunteered with the One Heart, an organization in Greece which specializes in providing medical support to refugees, particularly those from Afghanistan or Iran.
Following the discovery of her body, the police investigation focused on questioning those she may have met through this work, with officers claiming that her killer may have been someone she tried to help.
She was seen speaking with homeless people in Kypseli after arriving in the area.
It is understood the killer continued to send messages from Ms Ross’s phone and posted on her Facebook page after her death in an attempted cover up the fact that she was missing.
They never learn.
A pro-Palestine NYC woman living in Ireland was murdered by her “asylum-seeking” muslim boyfriend.
A liberal couple packed up their naiveté and biked through heavily Islamic Southwest Asia to experience humanity and “evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own”. Both were slaughtered by ISIS in Tajikistan, when they were deliberately hit by the terrorist’s car as they cycled along a rural road. They were also stabbed and shot.
A liberal Green Party shit for brains by the name of Zaida Catalan took her ‘open borders’ philosophy to the Congo. She was beheaded for her troubles.
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