{"id":41415,"date":"2026-04-05T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41415"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:48:09","slug":"man-arrested-attempting-to-board-international-flight-at-melbourne-airport-after-allegedly-murdering-woman-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41415","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested attempting to board international flight at Melbourne airport after allegedly murdering woman | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A man is set to face court following his arrest as he tried to board an overseas flight after allegedly murdering a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 67-year-old man was arrested at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Melbourne<\/a> International Airport on Friday afternoon before he stepped onto an overseas-bound plane, Victoria police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He has been charged with one count of murder after the discovery of a missing woman\u2019s body in Little River, a town 44km southwest of Melbourne, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 53-year-old woman from Dandenong was reported missing on Thursday after she did not contact her family as expected, with police deeming the circumstances suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Her body was found in the vicinity of Little River Road and the Princes Freeway in Little River and officers have set up a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The body is yet to be formally identified, but detectives believe it is the missing woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The accused from Patterson Lakes has been remanded in custody and is expected to appear before the Melbourne magistrates court on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/apr\/05\/man-arrested-attempting-to-board-international-flight-at-melbourne-airport-after-allegedly-murdering-woman-ntwnfb\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is set to face court following his arrest as he tried to board an overseas flight after allegedly murdering a woman. The 67-year-old man&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}