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Canal death: woman held
THE dramatic arrest of a woman in a Dublin street this week is expected to cast light on the drowning of a popular Big Issue seller in a Camden Town canal two years ago.
Patrick Linkavicius, 30, a Lithuanian father-of-two, was pulled unconscious from Hawley Lock on the Regent’s Canal by a passer-by on September 8, 2006.
He died at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead the next day. Police launched an inquiry which included a European arrest warrant for one of the people he was drinking with that day, 23-year-old Magdalena Zajdel, from Poland.
Ms Zajdel, like Mr Linkavicius, a well-known figure on Camden’s streets, could not be found in the days following the death.
The Irish Independent newspaper reported on Sunday how a young female police officer recognised Ms Zajdel from a wanted poster circulated to European forces. Ms Zajdel was arrested in Dublin’s main shopping street on Friday and later served with an extradition warrant.
Although police have always treated Mr Linkavicius’s death as suspicious, a St Pancras inquest returned an open verdict.
Coroner’s court officer Alan Pearce told the inquest: “The deceased was with others drinking on the canal bank when an altercation of some sort took place which is believed to have resulted in the deceased being pushed into the canal.” |
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