Family waits on murder verdict

Edgar Fernandes was killed the day after he arrived on holiday

The family of a London man who was murdered while on holiday in Turkey five years ago are due to hear a court's verdict on his alleged killer.

Edgar Fernandes, a 37-year-old librarian from Hackney, east London, disappeared while on holiday in April 1998.

His alleged killer, Egyptian-born Mohammed Abdul Abbas Aly, was arrested in Malta several months later after being found in possession of Mr Fernandes' passport and credit cards.

The Maltese authorities eventually agreed to extradite him to Turkey in 2001 after long delays because of the country's use of the death penalty.

Mr Fernandes' family initially found little help from Turkish police after he went missing.

His body was found in the Bosphorus River on 10 April but it lay unidentified in an Istanbul morgue for a month.

The family's efforts to find Mr Fernandes had included travelling to Istanbul where they found his luggage still in the hotel.

They had visited the morgue three times but were never shown the right body.

It was established that Mr Fernandes had been bludgeoned to death and his credit cards stolen.