A British man has been arrested in France over the murder of a woman who was attacked while out jogging, police said.
The woman's body was discovered on a track in Nimes, south-west France, last Thursday. Reports said the arrested man was 32 and originally from Chatham, in Kent. He is understood to have been living in the region with his mother.
A local police spokesman said: "A British man has been arrested. The matter is now being handled by police in Montpellier."
The dead woman – understood to be a 33-year-old mother of three of Tunisian origin – was reportedly found near a cemetery a few hundred metres from a police academy and detention centre. There were traces of blood on two stones and a blade found close to her body, according to the regional newspaper La Dépêche.
She appeared to have been badly beaten, with blows to the face and neck. A postmortem examination revealed she also had knife wounds.
The woman had been reported missing by her partner after he was contacted by the children's school when she failed to collect them, La Dépêche reported. The woman was said to go jogging regularly in the quiet Courbessac area where she lived.
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