LONDON (AP) – A quiz-show champion who appeared on the long-running BBC show “Eggheads” has been arrested over an alleged murder, after writing in a memoir that he might have killed a man in Amsterdam almost 30 years ago.
Joseph Connagh, whose professional name is C.J. de Mooi, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday on a Dutch-issued European Arrest Warrant, London’s Metropolitan Police said.
He appeared Thursday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where a prosecutor said he was wanted over allegations of murder, manslaughter and assault.
“It relates to an incident said to have taken place in 1988 in Amsterdam,” prosecutor Brian Gibbons said.
De Mooi, 46, appeared for a decade on “Eggheads,” which pits a team of quiz show champions against a different group of challengers each time.