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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Police investigating murder of Paria Veisi in south Wales find her body

Paria Veisi
Paria Veisi was reported missing after leaving her workplace in the Canton area of Cardiff on 12 April. Photograph: South Wales Police/PA

Police investigating the murder of a woman from Cardiff who was last seen leaving work a week ago have found a body.

Paria Veisi’s body was discovered by South Wales police at an address in Penylan, Cardiff, on Saturday, the force said.

She was reported missing after leaving her workplace in the Canton area of the city at about 3pm on 12 April.

Veisi was driving her black Mercedes GLC 200, which was later found on Dorchester Avenue in the Penylan area, five miles away.

A 41-year-old man from Penylan has been charged with murder, preventing lawful and decent burial of a body, and assaulting a person occasioning them actual bodily harm.

A 48-year-old woman from Australia Road, White City Estate in west London, has been charged with preventing a lawful and decent burial of a dead body and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

They both appeared at Cardiff magistrates court on Saturday. Both have been remanded in custody until their next appearance at Cardiff crown court on Tuesday.

In an earlier appeal, South Wales police said Veisi’s disappearance was “totally out of character”.

On Thursday the force said the case was being treated as a murder investigation, led by its major crime team.

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