Brazilian authorities said today that they have recovered the forearms and left leg of a British teenager who was dismembered along the banks of a remote river near the central city of Goiania.

BRAZILIAN police were searching yesterday for the head, arms and legs of a British teenager whose grisly murder, allegedly by her Brazilian boyfriend, has shocked Brazil and Britain.

THE death of British teenager Cara Marie Burke is a chilling reminder of other murder cases where the bodies of victims’ have been stuffed into suitcases.

A man was charged with murder today after the dismembered body of his British girlfriend was found in a suitcase in central Brazil, police said.

The dismembered body of a 17-year-old British girl has been discovered stuffed into a suitcase in Brazil.