THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The decomposing body of heiress Eva Rausing was found under a pile of bedding, clothing and bin bags two months after she was last seen alive, a court heard.
Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, the 49-year-old heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, appeared in court charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of her body.
West London magistrates’ court heard that officers went to the couple’s £70 million home in Chelsea, west London, and discovered Mrs Rausing’s body in a second-floor bedroom in a “secure annexe” on July 9.
She was lying underneath a large pile of clothes, bed linen and bin bags, and was in an “advanced state of decomposition”, the court heard.
Brinkman May, for the prosecution, said Mrs Rausing, 48, was last seen by a financial consultant on May 3.
Rausing was represented at the 10-minute court hearing by Alexander Cameron QC, the older brother of David Cameron, the Prime Minister.
The heir, whose family established the Swedish Tetra Pak drinks carton empire, was arrested in Wandsworth, south London, at 11am on July 9 on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Police could not smell alcohol on his breath but his pupils were dilated, and a search of the car revealed a crack pipe in the footwell as well as a quantity of cannabis and a substance believed to be cocaine, the court heard. » | Sam Marsden | Wednesday, July 18, 2012
