British Embassy worker in Beirut was raped 'at least twice' before being murdered, investigators say an Uber driver who has been to prison several times 'admits strangling her and ditching her body in a dumpster' How on earth was this man licensed to drive for Uber???
A 35-year-old Uber driver identified as Tarek Hesso has admitted to murdering Rebecca Dykes, who was abducted after leaving a party in the the Lebanese Capital on Friday, investigators said.
Police arrested Hesso, who has previously served several prison sentences, in a 3am raid on Monday.
According to Lebanon's NNA agency he has admitted picking the 30-year-old diplomat up in his taxi, attempting to rape her and then strangling her before ditching her body in a dumpster by the roadside.
Rebecca Dykes, a UK diplomat who worked at the British embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, has been found dead
Rebecca Dykes was said to have been at a leaving party at the Demo nightclub in Beirut before she went missing
The body of the 30-year-old former public schoolgirl was found by a motorway on Saturday evening several miles from the nightspot where she was last seen alive.
Miss Dykes' family have been left 'devastated' by her death.
A police official said today that the suspect was traced through security cameras that showed his car driving from Beirut to the area where Dykes' body was found, just north of the Lebanese capital.
'He was detained at his apartment,' the official said, adding that the suspect is a Lebanese citizen.
'He was detained at his apartment,' the official said. He added that once the plate number of the vehicle was traced through security cameras, the suspect, who is a Lebanese citizen, was identified.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the suspect is an Uber driver who picked up the woman from Beirut's Gemayze neighborhood, known for its restaurants and pubs, then drove to a nearby neighborhood where she lived but did not drop her off there.
Instead, the suspect drove the car to the site where Dykes' body was later found. NNA said the man tried to sexually assault her, then strangled her with a rope. The police have not confirmed those details.
Earlier, a forensics official told The Associated Press that the woman was strangled with a rope.
Lebanese police have launched an investigation following the discovery on Saturday evening.
One security source said the diplomat was found with 'a piece of string around her neck'.
Another official involved in the investigation said: 'Our first impression is that it's not politically motivated.'
He said her body was found 'on the side of the Emile Lahoud road', east of central Beirut.
London police complained in April that Uber was either not disclosing, or taking too long to report, serious crimes including sexual assaults and this put the public at risk. The firm's boss has promised to make things right in the British capital.
And globally, the app has suffered a series of scandals in 2017 as a stream of executives left amid controversies involving allegations of sexual harassment and issues surrounding data privacy and business practices.
The Foreign Office advises against all travel to several areas in Lebanon, including southern suburbs of Beirut, and all but essential travel to most other areas of the country.
Terror attacks are deemed 'very likely' in the country, and protests in Beirut are common following the US announcement on the status of Jerusalem.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: 'Following the death of a British woman in Beirut, we are providing support to the family. We remain in close contact with local authorities. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.'
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The #Uber driver had previous!
When will people disassociate themselves from a cancer like Uber?
Is it all about money? Is that the bottom line? Money, money, money, and fuck everything else?
Shame be upon the @Conservatives and @TfL for colluding with this degenerate company!
4 comments:
at least she saved a couple of shekels on the cab fare,please forgive my comment i have a daughter of my own,but how many more incidents like this need to occur before something is done to stop it.
This is a massive story all the main sources have covered it including the beeb. But unlike the other sources the beeb have omitted that Uber are involved!
Makes no difference tbh.
How can one country's policies on letting people work under uber reflect on how other countries do it.
Un licenced and un regulated in some countries.
But in the the UK we all follow the same rules we all do the same dbs check that's done by the same councils and government.
Tagging any shit in from uber across the world doesn't make any difference here.
The many disaster stories with Uber seem to get hushed up by the media, especially the BBC in Britain. I suspect the establishment that so much like Uber because they have fingers in the pie are pulling strings with the media which is effectively state controlled. The scandal of why Uber are allowed to operate bypassing all sorts of normal rules goes to the very top. Britain's conservative tory MPs often praise and support Uber despite the fact it's a foreign company that avoids UK tax. Go figure that one out. Why would they be so unpatriotic at the expense of British business. Follow the money. Disgusting.
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