By Staff Reporter

Last updated at 11:31, Saturday, 04 August 2012

The sister of a Cumbrian bank manager, whose body was found in a lock-up garage, had suffered a single stab wound.

Carole Waugh

Oil executive Carole Waugh had not been seen by her family since mid-April and concerns for her safety grew after a fraudster tried to sell her central London flat by posing as her brother, who lives near Penrith.

Police at Scotland Yard said a post-mortem examination held at Kingston mortuary found a single stab wound on the body.

Miss Waugh’s body was found in a car inside the lock-up garage in Lime Court, New Malden, south-west London, on Friday night and formally identified yesterday.

Police announced on Wednesday that Miss Waugh’s disappearance was being treated as a murder inquiry and arrested a 47-year-old man on suspicion of kidnap, conspiracy to defraud and murder.

He is in custody at a south London police station today

Suspicious financial transactions running to thousands of pounds have also been made using Miss Waugh’s identity since she vanished, and her Cartier jewellery is missing.

Scotland Yard has appealed for information about the blue Volkswagen Golf where Miss Waugh was found, which has the registration number W466 NHL.

Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane said: “We need to hear from anyone with information on the car, particularly since April this year.

“Anyone who can assist us on where it has been since then, or can advise on anyone with a connection to it, should come forward.”

Miss Waugh, who owned a flat in Harrowby Street, Marylebone, was reported missing by her family on May 7. They last saw her at a family party in mid-April.

She had lived and worked in Libya for a number of years, but returned to London in 2008 and would regularly visit relatives in Durham, as well as her brother, Chris Waugh, of Stainton.

Detectives said she met men through a variety of internet sites, including dating websites, and they were investigating the possibility that she might have been an escort.

So far, a total of 10 people have been arrested in connection with the inquiry into Miss Waugh’s disappearance. At least three women have tried to pose as her since she vanished, police said.

Her flat is in an affluent part of central London and her brother Chris previously said she was “very frugal and careful” with money.

Mr Waugh added: “What I do know about Sister is that she’d earned what she’d earned and saved what she’d saved.”

The man in custody was arrested when he came into Luton Airport on Tuesday, initially on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and kidnap, and then later murder.

First published at 10:49, Saturday, 04 August 2012
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