Suma Begum update: Body found in search for wife ‘murdered by husband who hid body in suitcase & dumped her in river’
COPS investigating a murder have recovered a body from the River Thames.
Suma Begum, 24, was reported missing from Tower Hamlets, east London on 30 April.
Her husband Aminan Rahman was charged with her murder on May 4 and is remanded in custody.
Officers believe the 45-year-old murdered his wife in their home in The Docklands before disposing of her body in a suitcase in the River Lea.
Police say formal identification of the body is yet to take place but Ms Begum’s family has been updated.
A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.
Rahman appeared in court on Tuesday.
Prosecutor Tom Broomfield said: “It is alleged that he either killed or incapacitated Ms Begum, placed her or her body in a suitcase which he then dumped into the River Lea, part of the River Thames.
“The river has been searched but there is no sign of that suitcase.
“Because of the tidal nature of the Thames, it is not thought the suitcase of Ms Begum will be found until effectively the suitcase appears on the river bank.”