 Russian security forces said on Wednesday they had arrested a suspect in the 1998 murder of three Britons and a New Zealander who were kidnapped and beheaded in the violent Chechnya region. The suspect, Adam Dzhabrailov, told police under questioning he was a member of the armed gang that killed the four, General Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for Russian security forces' command in Chechnya, told Reuters by telephone. Britons Darren Hickey, Rudolf Petschi and Peter Kennedy and New Zealander Stanley Shaw were abducted while on a contract to install a mobile telephone system in Chechnya. Their severed heads were found on a road in Chechnya. Their bodies were not recovered until weeks later. |