By John Sexton

UK police have charged a 30 year old man with the murder of two young Chinese graduates in Newcastle last August.

The man is one of 17 Chinese nationals arrested on October 23rd by police investigating the murders of Zhou Qian and her boyfriend Zhang Zhenxing, whose badly beaten bodies were found on August 9 in the flat they shared in Croydon Road, Newcastle.

The man will appear in court on Monday 27th October. A number of the other people arrested on October 23rd have been released on bail.

(China.org.cn October 26, 2008)