Police make arrest in allotment killing of 80-year-old grandmother
DETECTIVES were yesterday quizzing a man over the murder of an 80-year-old grandmother whose body was found in a lock-up shed on an allotment.
Police are currently investigating the death of Lea Adri-Soejoko in north-west London
Police said a 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of killing Lea Adri-Soejoko.
Ms Adri-Soejoko, secretary of the Colindale Allotment and Garden Association in Colindale, north-west London, was found by police in the early hours of Tuesday, less than half an hour after she was reported missing.
Scotland Yard said they know how she died but have yet to reveal a cause of death.
I have been told that she was found strangled with her clothes pulled up over her head
It is believed Ms Adri-Soejoko, described by police as a “pillar of the community”, may have been strangled with a rope.
Detectives said earlier this week they wanted to quiz rough sleepers and allotment holders who may have seen her on the day she died.
The victim, also known by her maiden name of Hulselman, had lived in Britain since 1966 after moving from Belgium.
Metropolitan police are yet to reveal a cause of death but have arrested a 40-year-old man
The allotment is close to a Metropolitan Police training centre.
Allotment plot holder Emily Kolltveit, whose site is next to where the body was found, said: “I have been told that she was found strangled with her clothes pulled up over her head.”