Paris hotel murder suspect to be extradited to France

An English businessman accused of beating his millionairess girlfriend to death in a five-star Paris hotel is to be extradited to France, a British court has ruled.
 
Ian Griffin went on the run last year after the body of Polish-born Kinga Legg was discovered in a bathtub at the Hotel Bristol in May 2009. He will now be returned to France where he will faces charges over her death.
 
Griffin was not in court because he is being treated in hospital for kidney problems after taking an overdose in prison in an apparent attempt to kill himself. Since being arrested last year the bankrupt businessman has twice slashed his wrists. Previous hearings had been postponed as Griffin was deemed unfit to appear.
 
Despite calls from his lawyer for the case to adjourned, district judge Daphne Wickham ruled that he was fit to face the charges against him and should be extradited. "It is my conclusion that, on all the evidence before me, I cannot accept that there is a certainty of suicide," she said.
 
Griffin was arrested in June last year after Legg's "battered and bruised" body was found at the £1,000-a-night Bristol on the Rue du Faubourg St-Honore. He allegedly beat Legg to death and then fled to England in his Porsche 911 after leaving a 'Do not disturb' sign on their room door. He was discovered living in woodland near his home town of Macclesfield.
 
Reports last year claimed that the pair had a volatile relationship and that Legg, who ran a tomato export business, was "obsessively controlling" and capable of violence.
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