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Get you up to speed: Suitcase ‘killer’ text wife pretending to be Jihadist who killed Scot charity worker over religion | News World
Elizabeth-Jane Ross, a 38-year-old missionary from Scotland, was found dead in an abandoned building in Athens on July 18, three days after being reported missing. The prime suspect, Afghan boxer Sharif Ahmadzai, has been charged with manslaughter, robbery, and weapon offences in connection with her death.
Sharif Ahmadzai has been charged with manslaughter, robbery, and weapon offences in connection with the death of Elizabeth-Jane Ross. Greek police are continuing their investigation, examining Ahmadzai’s financial transactions and his wife’s role in the case, which remains ongoing.
Greek police continue their investigation into the death of Elizabeth-Jane Ross, emphasising the importance of testimonies, particularly from Sharif Ahmadzai’s wife, who has been described as ‘crucial’ to the case. Ahmadzai has been charged with manslaughter, robbery, and weapon offences, with further legal proceedings expected to follow as the investigation unfolds.
What remains unclear — Investigators have not confirmed the precise motive behind the alleged murder of Elizabeth-Jane Ross.
Afghan boxer accused of killing Scottish charity worker sends deceptive texts

Elizabeth-Jane Ross, a missionary from Scotland, was found dead in an abandoned building in Athens after going missing
The main suspect in the death of a Scottish charity worker tried to concoct a strange cover story after she was killed and stuffed in a suitcase, according to police sources.
The remains of charity worker Elizabeth-Jane Ross, 38, from Edinburgh, were found dumped in Athens on July 18, three days after she was reported missing from her flat.
Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, is suspected of killing her and transporting her body inside a black suitcase through the streets of Athens before dumping it in an abandoned building.
The Afghan boxer allegedly told detectives during an interrogation that Ms Ross was dead when he discovered her, and he put her in a suitcase so he could steal money from her without drawing attention.
Sources close to the case told Greek news outlet Protothema.gr,the suspect used a burner phone to send texts to his wife, friends of Elisabeth and even himself to cover his tracks.
In the messages designed to mislead police, he pretended to be jihadist and claimed to have killed Elisabeth because she was converting Muslims to Christianity through her work helping the homeless in Athens.
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She may have rejected the advances of a boxer before she was killed in Greece, a police source claims.

CCTV image allegedly shows Afghan boxer Sharif Ahmadzai pulling a suitcase containing Ms Ross’s remains through the streets of Athens
Now George Kalliakmanis, a former officer who leads the police union in the Greek capital, has hinted that a rejection theory cannot be ruled out.
He told The Sun: ‘He went to the flat where she was staying for a reason and it’s not thought that reason is because he wanted to commit robbery and steal her cards.
‘What was it? Nothing can be ruled out. Did she reject him? Nothing can be ruled out.’
Another source close to the investigation said: ‘It can’t be excluded that he had feelings for Ross who rejected him.’

The inside of the abandoned building where the body of Ms Ross was discovered by a homeless man (Picture: Reuters)
Ahmadzai, who is understood to have access to Ms Ross’s flat through a charity he ran with his wife, is the prime suspect in the investigation.
His wife, an American citizen Alaina Hall, allegedly told detectives her husband went missing on the evening of July 15.
When she checked his location on Find My Friends, it allegedly showed him at Ms Ross’s apartment.
It has also been revealed that Hall, who shares a young child with Ahmadzai, received around £2,200 in cash and a new iPhone from her husband, which she feared may have been bought with Ms Ross’s bank cards.

Elizabeth-Jane Ross was described as a ‘very precious girl’ by the Edinburgh church she had been a member of for two decades
Greek police officers told The Times that his wife’s testimony has been ‘crucial’ to the investigation.
Ahmadzai, who arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos via Pakistan, Iran and Turkey in 2016, met his American wife at a migrant camp, where she volunteered and he worked as a translator.
He has been charged with manslaughter, robbery and weapon offences.
Ms Ross, known as Lisa, was a missionary and a long-standing member of an independent Christian church called City on a Hill in Edinburgh.
Peter Anderson, a pastor of the congregation, paid tribute to her in a social media post: ‘We have lost a precious church member, Lisa. She was a member of our church for 20 years, and a very, very precious girl, and it’s a real tragic loss.
‘Lisa’s life was actually all about mission.
‘She served people and she cared for people all over the world.’
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Spanish police identify jihadism-linked individuals among Ceuta migrants
Spanish security services have identified at least a dozen individuals, previously arrested and deported for jihadist offences, among the recent influx of migrants into Ceuta.
Identifying jihadism-related individuals among migrants underscores significant challenges in security management and necessitates robust intelligence cooperation between Spain and Morocco during mass migrations.
Spanish security services have identified several individuals with prior jihadism-related offences among the recent influx of migrants, warranting further investigation into this concerning development.
Spanish media: Authorities reportedly identify suspected jihadists among Ceuta arrivals

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Spanish security services have reportedly identified several people previously investigated for jihadism-related offences among the migrants who entered Ceuta during last week’s mass arrivals, according to Spanish news outlets El Español and The Objective, which cited sources familiar with the investigation.
EU News has contacted Spain’s Interior Ministry, National Police and Civil Guard for comment but has not yet received a response.
According to the reports, officers from the National Police’s General Information Commissariat (CGI) and the Civil Guard’s Intelligence Headquarters (JIGC) analysed surveillance footage and identified at least a dozen people who had previously been arrested, convicted and later deported to Morocco for offences linked to jihadist terrorism.
Last week, terrorism experts interviewed by EU News said the jihadist threat in Spain has evolved into a “fourth phase”, characterised by increasingly decentralised radicalisation through social media, messaging apps and propaganda shared in memes and short videos, rather than through traditional hierarchical organisations.
The experts also highlighted the close counter-terrorism cooperation between Spain and Morocco, particularly in intelligence sharing and the monitoring of radicalised individuals, which they said is crucial when screening large-scale migration flows.
The reports have not been officially confirmed.
A similar controversy arose in May 2021, when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta via the El Tarajal breakwater. At the time, the Spanish government dismissed media reports alleging that jihadist militants had infiltrated the arrivals, describing them as a “malicious hoax”.
So far, neither the Spanish government nor the country’s law enforcement agencies have commented publicly on the latest reports published by El Español and The Objective.
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