prime suspect

English

Noun

prime suspect (plural prime suspects)

1. (law) A person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.
   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The police had found the getaway car in the field. The rain had washed most of the yellow paint off the Mini to reveal the Union Jack underneath. There was no doubt that the car was Queenie. This led the police to their prime suspect, the car’s owner, Gilbert Goodie.

Translations

most likely suspect

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主要嫌疑犯 (zhǔyào xiányífàn)

• Danish: hovedmistænkt c
• Dutch: hoofdverdachte (nl) m or f
• Finnish: pääepäilty (fi)
• French: suspect principal m
• German: Hauptverdächtiger (de) m
• Hungarian: fő gyanúsított
• Italian: maggiore indiziato m
• Russian: гла́вный подозрева́емый m (glávnyj podozrevájemyj)
• Slovene: glavni osumljenec m
• Swedish: huvudmisstänkt (sv) c