A prime suspect or key suspect is a person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.
1 BBC News looks at what is known about key suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
2 A key suspect in that case returns to court in London next Tuesday.
3 A key suspect linked to the Barcelona attack and a later one is still sought.
4 It wouldn't be good for your careers if your key suspect escaped out the window.
5 Now the key suspect has confessed to the crime.
6 He was a key suspect in the jihadist attacks in Paris that claimed 130 lives.
7 Police arrested the man last night but denied he had been identified as a key suspect .
8 Police considered him a key suspect in the 1943 assassination of Italian antifascist writer Carlos Tresca.
9 Serbia extradited a key suspect in the Madrid train bombings to Spain today, the Spanish government said.
10 Police in Portugal are investigating computer links to the key suspect in the Madeleine McCann abduction case today.
11 Kigali authorities are angry that the appeals chamber of the UN court freed a key suspect on procedural grounds.
12 A key suspect in this investigation was Brian Shivambu, and it has dragged the EFF into murky financial waters.
14 Police were also accused by a republican source of refusing to interview a key suspect who made himself available to them yesterday.
15 A key suspect and participant in the Paris terror attacks has been extradited to France after he was arrested last month in Belgium.
16 Prosecutors are trying to overturn a Supreme Court move to clear a key suspect , who has been linked to the state spy agency.
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