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A British student murdered in Poland was beaten to death by a bus driver after a row over a missed stop, police in the country have said.
The body of 21-year-old Catherine Zaks was discovered lying next to a railway embankment in the Polish city of Krakow.
Detectives have indicated the suspect they had been questioning - named as 44-year-old Miroslaw L - has admitted to the crime.
Police say the suspect - a bus driver in Krakow for six years - had attempted to dispose of the murder weapon before fleeing the city when he realised Ms Zaks had died.
Police spokesman Dariusz Nowak said the art student, who boarded the bus at around 3am, was the last passenger and probably missed her stop.
"Then there was some quarrel with a driver - she probably wanted him to take her to her missed bus stop," he said.
"Probably, then the driver took her out of the bus, before beating her and then driving away.
"The next day he discovered she was dead, took days off work and left Krakow."
"Now, we practically know everything. Yesterday (Wednesday), he took part in a kind of investigation experiment.
"He was showing us step-by-step how it happened. Then he told us about a pipe he used to beat her and that he threw it a few kilometres further into the forest.
"We have found it there, so we have an object with which she was beaten."
The officer said the pipe was now being tested in a laboratory and that a formal hearing was due to take place in the prosecutor's office.
Police had previously questioned a 30-year-old man in connection to the murder - but he was later released and thought not to have been involved.
Ms Zaks, who had dual British-Polish nationality, was due to return to the UK after working in Krakow for a month.
She was last seen alive leaving a party at a private home in the early hours of Saturday.
Ms Zak's England-based parents, who apparently left Poland in the 1980s, reportedly flew for Krakow after hearing of their daughter's death.
Dr Grant Pooke, head of history and philosophy at the University of Kent, where Catherine studied, described her as "an exceptionally talented and well-liked student".
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