Detectives are questioning a bus driver on suspicion of killing a British art student in Poland.

Kate Zaks, 21, who lived in Canterbury, was found bludgeoned to death next to a railway embankment on Saturday in Krakow.

She was a second year undergraduate reading history and philosophy of art at
the University of Kent.

Prosecutors have until tomorrow to decide whether the man will be charged.

She had gone out the night before to meet someone and never returned to her flat in the city.

Investigators say she had been struck repeatedly around the head with a heavy object.

Miss Zaks, who has Polish and UK nationality, was educated at private Buckswood School near Hastings and came to Kent to study history and philosophy of art.

Dr Grant Pooke is the senior lecturer and head of the history and philosophy of art subject section at Kent.

He said: "We are in shock here within the School of Arts.

"Kate was an exceptionally talented and well liked student in her second year taking a BA Hons degree in the history and philosophy of art.

"She had developed a real gift for journalism and writing, having completed an arts review whilst in Poland. Our thoughts are with Kate's family and friends."

It is not known where she had been living in Canterbury when she was killed, but she had for a time lived at Dover Street.

She had been working at Krakow's Galeria Zderzak, describing herself as a writer, critic and volunteer on website Facebook.

She lists Margaret Thatcher, Kurt Cobain, Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoyevsky as her influences.

Miss Zaks' parents run a village shop in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, and are understood to have travelled to Poland in the wake of her death.