Man arrested over student killing

Mohammed suffered a serious head injury and died two days later

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Qatari student who died following an incident in a Sussex town.

Sussex Police said a 21-year-old from South London was being questioned in Eastbourne after being detained on a flight from Cyprus.

Mohammed Al-Majed, 16, suffered a head injury outside a Hastings takeaway in August and died in hospital.

Two men have already been charged with violent offences. One is accused of a racially aggravated assault.

A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "At 9.30pm on 20th November 2008 police officers from the Operation Hook investigation team arrested a 21-year-old man from South London for the murder of Mohammed Al-Majed.

"The man was arrested on an aircraft which had arrived in the United Kingdom from Cyprus.

"He was taken to the Eastbourne custody suite where officers from the major crime branch will interview him in relation to the murder of Mohammed Al-Majed."

Mohammed was studying English at EF International Language Schools in White Rock and had been in the town for about five weeks, when a "public disorder" incident happened on 22 August.

He had spent five weeks in the town and was due to return to Qatar the following week.

His body was flown back to Qatar after he died at King's College Hospital, London.