A British teacher, who had gone missing hours after flying back to the Middle East from her grandmother’s funeral in the United Kingdom, is believed to have been “murdered”, according to London’s Daily Mail newspaper.
The British newspaper quoted friends of primary school teacher Lauren Patterson, 24, as saying that she was last seen in the early hours of Saturday at a nightclub in Doha, with two men.
“Sources say police have found her body and were able to identify her from a distinctive tattoo”, The Daily Mail reported, quoting The Sun, another
London daily.
There were suggestions from friends that Patterson had left a nightclub at a five-star hotel with a group of men and had texted friends to say she was being taken to the wrong house, the British daily said.
After Patterson disappeared, her family and boyfriend launched a frantic campaign on Facebook and other social media to find her.
But 40 hours later, her boyfriend, James Grima, posted a message saying she was dead.
It was followed by dozens of other tributes, praising a “truly amazing” young woman.
Her mother Alison, a reflexologist, left her own online tribute, writing: “Thank you so much to everyone for all their wonderful words about Lauren.”
Patterson, who flew back from her grandmother’s funeral on Friday, was a primary teacher at a British school in Doha.