British man arrested in Ecuador after woman’s body found in suitcase in Colombia

A British man has been arrested in Ecuador after the body of a woman was found inside a suitcase in Colombia . Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith is alleged to have caused the death of 36-year-old Natalia Villalba in an apartment in the Chicó neighbourhood of Bogotá on 18 June, local authorities said. Foster-Smith, from Bournemouth, Dorset , reportedly phoned the Sun a day before his arrest and said he was watching an England World Cup match on television at the time of the incident. “I was watching England versus Croatia on a big screen in an Irish bar so it wasn’t me,” the 46-year-old told the newspaper. “After the match I went in to the shopping centre, I mooched about, bought an ice-cream, and came back later for the later games.” England’s opening World Cup match took place in Dallas, Texas on 17 June. The Sun reported that the suspect made a second call to the newspaper on Friday prior to his arrest, with a source telling the newspaper he had been located via the phone calls he had made. A post on the official X account of the attorney general’s office in Colombia said Foster-Smith was accused of beating Villalba to death before placing her body in a suitcase, trying to conceal what happened, and fleeing the scene. The body of Natalia Villalba, 36, was found in a suitcase in an apartment in Bogotá. …