Lebanese Man Gets Life 11 Years after Slitting Roommate’s Throat in London

A Lebanese man has been jailed for life more than 11 years after he killed a Canadian-Moroccan woman whose body was found in a suitcase at London’s Heathrow Airport.

In August, the former Kuwait Airways flight attendant, Youssef Wahid, 42, was convicted of murdering Fatima Kama by slitting her throat and stabbing her repeatedly. On Monday, he was jailed for life.

The woman's jewels and $90,000 in cash were unaccounted for when police discovered her body stuffed in a suitcase on a baggage cart in a parking garage at Heathrow in 1999.

Kama was 28 at the time of her death. She had been working on and off in Lebanon as a wedding singer and entertainer. She was due to fly back to Montreal to her parents' home the day after she was killed.

She had moved to London in May 1999 to further her music career and rented a flat there.

The woman flew back to Montreal to celebrate her birthday. But when she returned to London in July she was told she would have to share the apartment with Wahid, the brother of her landlord.

Wahid was caught on CCTV at Heathrow preparing to dump the butchered body of his flatmate.

He travelled to Lebanon a day after the slaying. He was arrested shortly after arriving in Beirut, but released because of a lack of evidence. He then disappeared.

Detectives traced him to Bahrain and arrested him there last month and took him back to Britain.