Postmortem reveals London resident Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was killed by ‘compression of the neck’A film-maker whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in her garden had been strangled, a postmortem examination has found. The body of 34-year-old Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found buried in Kew, a district of Richmond upon Thames, south-west London, after she was reported missing from work. Scotland Yard said that the postmortem performed on Saturday gave a cause of death as “consistent with compression of the neck”. Police urged anyone who saw or communicated with the French national between 2 March and Wednesday, when her body was found, to get in touch. She was reported missing after failing to turn up for work at public relations company Golin.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2019 23:45 UTC