Wife's plea to Hannah suspect

Maninder Pal Singh Kohli has two children aged six and four

The wife of the prime suspect in the Hannah Foster murder inquiry has urged her husband to give himself up.

Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, 35, is being hunted by British police in India after fleeing from Southampton four days after 17-year-old Hannah went missing.

Shalinder Kaur, 33, has issued an appeal through police begging him to come home.

The couple, from Swaythling, Southampton, have two children aged six and four.

If you are innocent this is the only way you can clear your name Shalinder Kaur, suspect's wife

Mrs Kaur said: "Please Nippy [a family nickname], for my sake and for the good of your children and your family, I urge you to hand yourself into the police and come back home so that this can be sorted out.

"Wherever you are please just go to the nearest police station and give yourself up.

"If you are innocent this is the only way you can clear your name. So please just come home."

Mrs Kaur was questioned at a Southampton police station on Wednesday and released on police bail to reappear in June.

Hannah hoped to be a doctor and had won a place at university

The mother-of-two was originally arrested soon after her husband left the country.

Three detectives from Hampshire Constabulary, currently based in New Dehli, are soon to head to the suspect's home town of Mohali, near Chandigarh, the capital of the Punjab.

Mr Singh is believed to have spent a week to 10 days there with his family soon after arriving in India.

Police also want to question his brother, Isthpreet Singh, a serving Indian police officer.

Speaking from the family home on Tuesday, his brother said: "We all advise him to surrender and face the law."

Police first searched the suspect's home in March, after a tip-off from a viewer of the BBC Crimewatch programme.

Hannah was found raped and strangled in undergrowth on the outskirts of Southampton on 16 March.

She had vanished two days earlier after waving goodbye to a friend after an evening at the pub.

The bright A-level student, who lived with her family in the Portswood area of the city, had been offered a place to study medicine at two universities.