Legg murder: Police hunt for tycoon
A manhunt is continuing for a British businessman suspected of beating his girlfriend to death at a top Paris hotel.
Ian Griffin has been on the run since Tuesday when millionairess Kinga Legg was found dead at the Hotel Le Bristol in the French capital.
Mr Griffin allegedly fled the £1,000-a-night hotel in his Porsche 911 which was later recovered at an address in Warrington, Cheshire, where he grew up.
He is also known to have visited Shepperton Marina, near the couple's rented home in Surrey, and where they kept a high-powered speed boat.
Cheshire Police have urged the 39-year-old tycoon, who once worked as a male model, to make contact with the authorities. The force has also traced and interviewed a number of people associated with him.
Miss Legg's body was found by a maid "battered and bruised" in the bathroom of their hotel suite. The 36-year-old died from internal bleeding as a result of her injuries, French police have said.
Billy Leisengang, the administrator of Shepperton Marina, said he saw Mr Griffin at around lunchtime on Wednesday. He said: "Later, when I heard about what happened in Paris, it was a great shock. They were very decent people, the sort of people we like to have here at the Marina."
Mr Griffin built a string of businesses including tanning salons and gadget shops across north-west England. But it has been reported the business floundered and he was declared bankrupt in 2006.
Miss Legg ran her family company, Vegex, which supplies tomatoes to British supermarkets and has a base in Surrey and in her Polish home town of Opatowek.
The couple are understood to have been in a relationship for three years. They initially shared a home in Knutsford, Cheshire, which has also been searched by police, but later moved to Oxshott in Surrey.
