Dutchman arrested after British woman stabbed to death in India

Police in India are investigating whether a British woman was sexually assaulted before she was stabbed to death on a floating hotel.

Sarah Groves, 24, was found in a pool of blood inside her room on the house boat, on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Saturday.

A Dutch national, widely named in reports as Richard De Wit, who had also been staying at the hotel, has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

The door to Miss Grove’s room had been smashed open.

Local police said the victim had multiple stab wounds all over her body while a knife was found next to her.

De Wit, aged 43, fled with only his passport, leaving behind all his belongings before he was arrested in Qazigund, a town just under 45 miles south of Srinagar.

Miss Groves spent more than a month on the houseboat while De Vit booked into a separate room on Thursday, police said.