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Man remanded over headless corpse
Kingsgate Place
Lakhdar Ouyahia was an Algerian national and lived in Kilburn
A man has been remanded in custody accused of murdering another man whose headless body was found in London.

Mohamed Boudjenane, 45, of Kingsgate Road, Kilburn, appeared before Highbury Corner magistrates on Monday and will appear at the Old Bailey on 19 May.

Lakhdar Ouyahia, who was 43 and an Algerian national, was found wrapped in a blood-stained duvet in a supermarket goods cage in Kilburn last Wednesday.

His head was found in the Grand Union Canal in St John's Wood on Saturday.

Mr Ouyahia, who lived in Kilburn, was discovered by a member of the public.

A post-mortem examination found the cause of his death was a "blunt instrument to the head".

A man and a woman in their 30s, arrested in Alvaston, Derby, on suspicion of assisting an offender, have been bailed by police until next month.



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