By Tara Rippin • Published: 06 Jun 2020 • 21:31
INVESTIGATION: The bodies of a husband and wife were found in separate homes today. CREDIT: Guardia Civil
THE woman’s body was found at one of their properties in San Juan, and her husband, 70, was discovered in their other flat in El Campello with “symptoms of suicide”.
Spanish police are now investigating whether it’s a domestic/sex crime and subsequent suicide.
San Juan Town Hall has confirmed the deaths and announced the Judicial Police has taken charge of the investigation.
The council said the couple were residents of San Juan, and that they lived together at the address where the woman’s body was found.
If a domestic/sexist crime is confirmed, it will be the second in the province of Alicante so far in 2020, after the murder of Alina Mocanu in Moraria in February at the hands of her partner, Arthur K, who turned himself in to the police.
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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