The chief suspect in the fatal stabbing of a British Rolls-Royce designer in Germany last week has been arrested in France following an international manhunt.
Ian Cameron , 74, was found dead at his £3 million mansion in Lake Ammersee in Upper Bavaria on Friday evening, July 12.
HOW HE ESCAPED THE SCENE
The Serbian suspect was seen hours before Cameron’s death at a supermarket less than a mile from the murder scene wearing a grey T-shirt and blue trousers. He later fled to France from Germany before his arrest.
CCTV footage from the crime scene later showed an unidentifiable man wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt, light-coloured trousers, gloves, and a dark red backpack.
Investigators searching the surrounding area after Cameron was found dead discovered the backpack containing both sets of clothes, suggesting the assailant had changed his outfit a second time after the crime to avoid arrest.
WHAT POLICE THINK
Police now believe the killer rang the doorbell to Mr Cameron’s home in Herrsching and attacked him when he opened the door, forcing his wife Veronika Kloos, also a former designer at BMW to flee to safety….she fled over a wall to evade the attacker, finding refuge with neighbours who called the emergency services.Â
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Suspicions were raised that the designer was deliberately targeted when it emerged the cables to CCTV cameras over the garages where his high-value vehicles were kept had been cut.
Some 30 officers were deployed to hunt for the attacker after Cameron’s neighbours provided a description of the perpetrator that appeared in the security camera footage.
Police sent drones and even a police helicopter to search for the murderer, they found the rucksack, which is now being analysed for usable DNA traces.
The investigation team earlier this week extended the manhunt to the whole of Germany before he was located in France.
