Rebecca Dykes, who was 30, had been due to fly home for Christmas on SaturdayLebanese police have arrested a taxi driver in connection with the murder of a British diplomat believed to have been raped and strangled by the side of a road in Beirut. Security sources told The Times that the suspect’s first name was Tarek and that his initials were TH. He was arrested on suspicion of murder in a raid at 3am this morning. Rebecca Dykes, 30, was found by an expressway leading out of the city to the northeast on Saturday evening, and identified yesterday. She was last seen with friends in a bar in the Gemmayze district on Friday evening, and had left to go home at about 11pm.

Source: The Times December 18, 2017 00:03 UTC