A German man living in Dublin is due to be questioned by Italian judges in his jail cell today after his wife went missing on a cruise.
45 year old Daniel Belling was arrested at an airport in Rome while trying to board a Ryanair plane to Dublin - after the crew realised Xing Lei Li hadn't disembarked.
The couple's two children, aged 6 and 4, are being looked after by social services.
Rome Correspondent with the Telegraph Nick Squires says their mother was last seen in a souvenir shop in Genoa: