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| Briton arrested in Nimes murder probe | |
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| A British man has been arrested in the French town of Nimes in connection with the murder of a woman jogger. | |
| The man, who has not been named, is 32 and from Chatham in Kent, according to the AFP news agency. | The man, who has not been named, is 32 and from Chatham in Kent, according to the AFP news agency. |
| He is being questioned in connection with the murder of a mother-of-three whose body was found on Thursday in scrubland on the outskirts of Nimes. | He is being questioned in connection with the murder of a mother-of-three whose body was found on Thursday in scrubland on the outskirts of Nimes. |
| The man lived with his mother in a neighbourhood of Nimes. Police searched the home on Tuesday morning. | The man lived with his mother in a neighbourhood of Nimes. Police searched the home on Tuesday morning. |
| The semi-clothed body of the woman was found after her children's school alerted her partner that she had failed to pick them up, AFP reported. | |
| A box cutter-style knife and two blood-stained stones found nearby are thought to have been the murder weapons. | |
| Laure Beccuau, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, said the woman had suffered multiple stab wounds and other injuries. | |
| The victim, a housewife of Tunisian heritage, had three children, aged three, six and nine. |