British widow killed in Goa

A British widow who had moved to Goa has been found with her throat slit.

Denise Higgins of Oxfordshire, 52, had been living in the Indian state since late 2006.

Her assailant stabbed her in her kitchen, using her own kitchen knife, on Thursday.

She was discovered on Friday morning after a rickshaw driver went to collect her and entered the back of her house through an open door.

A police spokesman reported of the rickshaw driver: "He said that the main door was locked so he went to the back door which was slightly open.

"He found her lying on the floor in the sitting room and there was blood everywhere," he added.

A 28-year-old waiter named Anand Kambli, who was at Ms Higgins house for dinner on the night of the killing, has been arrested.

Theories including that there were sexual relations between the pair or a potential property deal have been speculated on.

The police have now ruled out the former possibility.

A British national, Ms Higgins was born in the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).