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'We are coming to get you': recordings reveal Saudi plan for Khashoggi murder

UN transcripts outline discussions on how to carry heavy body in separate pieces
Jamal Khashoggi arrived at the Saudi consulate in Turkey by appointment to obtain papers to marry his fiancée. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images

The UN report into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi reveals disturbing new details about what happened in the hours before he died, and the conversations that were taking place between Saudi officials who were involved in his killing.

Relying on the transcripts of recordings provided by the Turkish authorities, the report describes how Jamal Khashoggi went to.

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