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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across all outlets. The shared core framing focused on factual elements: a British woman's body found in a suitcase in Athens and a subsequent arrest. The primary framing difference was whether headlines identified the suspect's nationality. The BBC's headline — "Greek police fast-tracking tests to find out how British woman found in suitcase died" — centered on investigative process without referencing the suspect at all. By contrast, the Daily Mail and Metro foregrounded the suspect's background with phrases like "Afghan national, 26, is arrested" and "Afghan man, 26, arrested," a choice scorers flagged as a right-coded signal because it links nationality to crime. Sky News occupied a middle position, referring only to "Man arrested" without a nationality reference. The difference is subtle rather than dramatic, reflecting a modest editorial choice about which facts to lead with.