A BUSINESSWOMAN accused of killing two schoolgirls with poisoned chocolate-covered raspberries reportedly gave away her location after drinking Buxton water during a TV interview.
Zulma Guzman Castro is wanted by cops for allegedly killing Ines de Bedout, 14, and Emilia Forero, 13, in Colombia.
Castro, thought to be in her 40’s, is alleged to have killed the teens – who died after consuming a gift of chocolates injected with lethal thallium.
Police say the poisonings may have been an alleged “act of vengeance” by Castro after a failed affair she had with the father of Ines.
An Interpol Red Notice to find the accused double killer was issued earlier this month.
The international force advised that she had visited Brazil, Spain and the UK since leaving Colombia earlier this year.
It is understood that Castro arrived in Britain on November 11.
And it is believed Castro alerted authorities to the fact she might be in the UK by drinking from a bottle of Buxton mineral water.
The accused killer was spotted glugging from the British water brand during an exclusive interview with Colombian channel Focus Noticias.
A source told MailOnline: “The bottle of water she drank from was Buxton Natural Mineral Water, a product mainly commercialised in the UK.
“The size of the bottle she was drinking are sold in street shops, which would indicate Guzman is in an apartment or house and not in a hotel.”
The National Crime Agency were said to have been actively searching for electric car rental business owner Castro – who denies the killings.
On Tuesday, Castro was rescued from the River Thames close to Battersea Bridge, West London, in a dramatic rescue operation just before 7am.
A Met Police spokesman said: “Police were called at 06:45hrs on Tuesday, 16 December to reports of a woman in distress on Battersea Bridge.
“The Met’s Marine Policing Unit recovered a woman in her 50s from the water at 07.14hrs…
“She was taken to hospital, where her injuries have since been deemed not life-threatening or life-changing.”
Rescuers scoured the river with searchlights before finding Castro, with Colombian authorities making a request to the UK for her capture.
It is understood a warrant was issued by Westminster Magistrates Court for her arrest earlier this week.
If and when she is pronounced fit enough, Castro will be taken into custody.
She will then appear at Westminster magistrates’ court for an extradition hearing in due course.
In the meantime, the Interpol Red Notice to find her appears to have been removed.
A source told The Sun: “She was the subject of a worldwide hunt over the shocking allegations of murdering two girls with poison.”
Prosecutors allege Castro used a courier firm to deliver the poisoned fruit dessert to the girls.
They were said to have been at the luxury Bogota apartment belonging to Ines’ father Juan de Bedout at 7pm local time on April 3 this year.
The girls allegedly returned to the apartment from school and at first refused the parcel, believing they weren’t expecting any deliveries.
They later ate the dessert laced with thallium, a colourless and odourless heavy metal, and collapsed soon afterwards.
They were taken to the Santa Fe de Bogota Foundation hospital, and tragically died four days later.
Forensic experts have determined the thallium, which can be lethal in tiny doses, was deliberately injected into the chocolate raspberries.
Another girl suffered life-changing injuries and the 21-year-old brother of one of the fatal victims was hospitalised after eating the laced berries.
Castro left Colombia on April 13 and went to Argentina, Brazil and Spain before coming to the UK.
Local news reports claim investigators are probing the death of Juan’s wife.
She died two years before the schoolgirls’ deaths, amid suspicions she could also have been the victim of thallium poisoning.
Castro has denied killing the girls and said she came to the UK because her son is here.
She said in a message while on the run: “I find myself in the middle of a very serious situation…
“…where I’m being accused of having been the person who sent a poison that killed two girls.
“They accuse me of having fled to Argentina, and then to Brazil, Spain and the UK.
“Those who know me know I haven’t fled anywhere. They know I’ve been working in Argentina and began a masters in journalism here.
“I went to Spain more than a month ago, with a stopover in Brazil, and then to the UK because of my son.
“I imagine they’re accusing me because I had a secret relationship with the father of one of the girls.”
The father of victim Emilia Forero issued an emotional social media tribute for his daughter.
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Grieving Pedro Forero posted: “Fourteen years ago, a life of hopes, joys and dreams began; a life that filled a family, a father and a mother.
“But it wasn’t just the joy of someone else’s life; it was the beginning of the life of an excellent human being who had dreams, hopes and goals.
“As a father, it is incomprehensible to think that someone was capable of taking this away.”
Potentially alluding to Castro, he added: “She did not just take away my dreams, my desires and my prospects in life as a father…
“She did not just take away my opportunity to be a father-in-law, grandfather and everything else one can be as a parent.
“She took away my daughter’s opportunity to be a girlfriend, a professional, a wife, a mother and a daughter.”
