A US businessman has pleaded guilty to strangling a woman in a Cardiff hotel on New Year’s Eve in 2014. The couple met on internet dating site MuslimMatch.com in 2013, with Almahri making the “fictitious” claim he worked for the FBI. Photograph: South Wales Police/PAHowever, the court heard the relationship soured in 2014 when Aburas visited Almahri in New York. After killing Aburas, Almahri drove to Heathrow using his victim’s car and boarded a flight to Qatar, before eventually ending up in Tanzania. Almahri, who previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder, changed his plea to guilty during a hearing at Cardiff crown court on Thursday and will be sentenced on 3 November.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2016 13:52 UTC