Rebecca Dykes was murdered by an Uber driver
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Ellena Cruse
1 November 2019
An Uber driver has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of British embassy worker nearly two years ago.
Tarek Houshi admitted raping 30-year-old Rebecca Dykes in Beirut and strangling her to death with a rope in December 2017, Lebanon's national news agency said
Ms Dykes, who worked in Beirut with the Department for International Development, was last seen leaving a bar in the Gemayzeh district of Beirut.
Houshi was arrested two days later.
Authorities said at the time that Houshi had a criminal record,
His death sentence can be appealed and the country as not carried out an execution since 2004, according to Human Rights Watch.