CJ de Mooi arrest: Former Eggheads panellist and patron of Shropshire-based charity detained on suspicion of murder
A former panellist on the BBC quiz show Eggheads and patron of a Shropshire-based charity has been arrested under a European arrest warrant for an alleged killing more than 20 years ago.
CJ de Mooi was detained under his real name Joseph Connagh at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, Scotland Yard said.
He is wanted over an alleged killing in the Netherlands and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
De Mooi, who lives in Monmouthshire, is a patron of the Shropshire-based charity British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which has its headquarters at Dhustone, near Ludlow.
He ran the Reading Half Marathon in aid of the charity in 2015.
He revealed in his autobiography that he may have killed a man while he lived on the streets two decades ago.
The 46-year-old said he punched a man who approached him with a knife and then threw him into a canal in Amsterdam in 1988.
He wrote in his autobiography: "He caught me on the wrong day and I just snapped."
He added: "I fully suspect I killed him. I've no idea what happened to him."
He became a panellist on the BBC Two show, which features five quiz champions competing as a team against different challengers, in 2003 after winning a series of game shows.
He adopted the name de Mooi when modelling, and he translates it as Dutch for "handsome"
