Overview
- Officers from the National Crime Agency’s National Extradition Unit arrested Zulma Guzman Castro in the W10 area following her hospital discharge and took her to Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
- She confirmed her identity, declined to consent to extradition to Colombia and was remanded by District Judge Sarah Turnock ahead of a case management hearing on January 12.
- Colombian authorities are seeking her transfer over the deaths of Ines de Bedout, 14, and Emilia Forero, 13, after toxicology reports indicated thallium in chocolate-covered raspberries consumed in Bogotá on April 3, 2025.
- Investigators say she left Colombia on April 13, an Interpol Red Notice was issued, and flight records show she entered the UK from Madrid on November 11.
- On December 16 she was rescued from the River Thames near Battersea Bridge and detained under the Mental Health Act; she has publicly denied the allegations.