A man has faced court accused of murder after he was arrested while trying to board an overseas flight.
Allan Keys, 67, was arrested at Melbourne International Airport on Friday afternoon before he stepped on to the overseas-bound plane, Victoria police said.
He was charged with one count of murder after the discovery of a missing woman’s body in Little River, 44km south-west of Melbourne, on Saturday.
The 53-year-old woman from Dandenong was reported missing on Thursday after she did not contact her family as expected, with police deeming the circumstances suspicious.
Her body was found in the vicinity of Little River Rd and the Princes Freeway in Little River, and officers have set up a crime scene.
The body is yet to be formally identified, but detectives believe it is the missing woman.
Keys, who is from Patterson Lakes, was remanded in custody and faced Melbourne magistrates court on Saturday.
He is next due to come before the court on 10 August.