Police investigating the gunning-down of a British family at a French Alpine beauty spot last year have arrested a 54-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, reports The Guardian.
The man is said by Sky News to be his brother – who has previously denied a feud over a family inheritance.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were shot near Lake Annecy in the Haute Savoie in September. Their daughters, Zainab, then aged seven, was shot in the shoulder and beaten on the head in the attack while Zeena, four, escaped unhurt after hiding in the footwell of the family's BMW estate under the skirt of her dead mother for eight hours.
A passing cyclist, Frenchman Sylvain Mollier, 45, a father-of-three who appeared to have stumbled across the scene, was also murdered in the attack, which French investigators have suspected was a contract killing.
Surrey police, who have been working with French detectives, said in a statement: "Detectives investigating the deaths of four people near Annecy, southern France in September last year have this morning, 24 June 2013, arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
"The 54-year-old man was detained at an address in Chessington, Surrey at around 7.30am and is currently in police custody, where he will be interviewed.
Read more of this report from The Guardian.