Police treat Crete death as murder

May 26 2010

Police investigating the death of a British woman whose body was found in a harbour on the Greek island of Crete are treating the case as murder, her family said.

Tourist industry worker Jean Hanlon, 53, of Dumfries, disappeared in March last year in mysterious circumstances and her body was found four days later in the sea off Heraklion.

Her family have campaigned for more than a year to find out what happened to her in the hours before her death after a local coroner initially ruled she died as a result of an accident.