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    BBC News
    Last Updated: Thursday, 3 February, 2005, 11:55 GMT

    Burning body suspect due in court

    One man has already been charged with murdering Mr Amirian
    A man is due to appear before magistrates charged with the murder of a man
    whose burning body was found on the Cambs/Northants border.
    Armenian Havhannes Amirian's remains were found at Upton in December 2002.
    Misha Chatsjatrjan, from Oldenzaal in the Netherlands, was arrested by Dutch
    police on 12 January.

    He is due before Peterborough Magistrates' Court. Police worked on the case
    for more than a year before identifying the dead man as Mr Amirian.

    'Unknown male'

    At one stage it was feared the body, which was found in a wood, might never
    be identified.

    It led to Peterborough coroner Gordon Ryall taking the unusual step of
    allowing the man to be buried in a grave marked "Unknown Male".

    However after the police made a breakthrough in the case the inquest was
    briefly resumed for Mr Amirian's identity to be announced, more than a year
    after his death.

    The inquest heard that Mr Amirian was born in Armenia and had family
    connections in the Ukraine. However, most recently he had lived in Belgium
    and England.
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