Police investigating the murder of June Jones who was left dead for “weeks” have found and arrested her ex partner on suspicion of murder.
June Jones and Michael Foran.
West Midlands Police
June Jones’s sister reported her missing on Boxing Day and she was discovered on New Year’s Eve at her west Bromwich flat by officers. Police named her ex partner as a suspect. A forensic post mortem was conducted and did not reveal the medical cause of death. However, there was evidence of a ‘sustained and brutal assault with a weapon’. An item has been recovered and is undergoing forensic testing.
Michael Foran, 32, was arrested in Liverpool on Sunday. He will be transferred to the West Midlands for questioning.
Michael Foran.
Det Insp Warren Hines, from West Midlands Police’s homicide department, said: “This is a significant step forward in our enquiries.
“I would like to thank the public and media for their support in this investigation and I would continue to urge anyone with information to come forward.”
He is due at Walsall Magistrates’ Court later today.
A 34-year-old man was charged with assisting an offender.
Contact the police via Live Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am to midnight, call DI Hines on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
