Man, 74, is arrested in England over the murder of British grandmother who was stabbed to death in her Italian dream home, sparking international manhunt

A 74-year-old man has been arrested in England in connection with the murder of a grandmother at her Italian home, it has emerged. 

The man was arrested by police officers in Shepshed, Leicestershire, last night in connection with the murder of Michele Faiers in Italy. 

Michele, 66, was discovered lying in a pool of blood in her first-floor bedroom by her friend inside her rural home in Verratti village near Casoli, a town in eastern Italy, on Wednesday morning.

The mother-of-two was found on the floor next to her bed, dressed in her underwear and covered in a white sheet with just her feet poking out, an investigative source said told MailOnline.

Italian police were hunting Michele’s partner Michael Whitbread, 74, a retired IT consultant originally from Torquay, after he allegedly left the scene in the couple’s white Jeep Compass before police could question him.

Colonel Alceo Greco, of Italy’s carabinieri police force, said Mr Whitbread is a prime suspect in Michele’s murder. 

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The man, who is a British national, was arrested by police officers in Shepshed, a town in Leicestershire, in connection with the murder of Michele Faiers (pictured) in Italy

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