Who was Martine Vik Magnussen and what happened to her?
MARTINE Vik Magnussen was celebrating successful exam results when she was brutally murdered in Mayfair in 2008.
Here, we look at how she died and what developments have been made in the case.
Who was Martine Vik Magnussen?
Martine Vik Magnussen was a Norwegian business student, who studied at Regent’s Business School London.
She was found dead on March 16, 2008, after being reported missing by her friends the previous day.
An inquest at Westminster coroner’s court found on November 24, 2010, that Martine had been unlawfully killed.
Her father Odd Petter Magnussen has campaigned tirelessly for justice since the death of his daughter.
What happened to Martine?
Martine was murdered on March 14, 2008, after attending the Maddox Club in Mayfair on a night out.
She was celebrating coming top of her class in her latest exam results.
She was found hidden under a pile of rubble in the basement of an apartment block in Great Portland Street, London, on March 16, 2008.
It was revealed that she was strangled to death, and further examinations found that she had been raped.
A number of her belongings remain missing from what she was wearing on the night of her death, including her earrings and her shoes.
CCTV footage from the night in question shows her leaving the club at around 2am with fellow Regent’s Business School student, Farouk Abdulhak.
Abdulhak is the son of a Yemeni billionaire, and was a former boyfriend of Martine, who he got into a taxi with.
He left the country soon after the incident, flying to Egypt and then on to Yemen.
Police say he is the only suspect in the case, and have requested that he return to the UK to face questioning.
Other people have been arrested on suspicion of assisting the murder, including a woman in her 60s who was taken into custody on March 8, 2022.
This was hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight for answers in the case.