Murder of Martine Vik Magnussen
Great Portland Street, where Magnussen's body was found in a block of flats. | |
| Date | 14 March 2008 |
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| Location | Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London |
The Martine Vik Magnussen case involves the rape and murder of 23-year-old Norwegian female business student Martine Vik Magnussen. Her body was found hidden under rubble in the basement of a block of flats in Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London, on 16 March 2008. She died from compression to the neck, the cause of strangulation.
Farouk Abdulhak, the son of billionaire and one of Yemen's wealthiest men Shaher Abdulhak, is the only suspect in the case.
In March 2023, a BBC journalist reported that the suspect said to her (but not in person), that "I don't remember what happened". When the journalist was back in England, he allegedly texted her: "It was just an accident. [...] Just a sex accident gone wrong".