Overview

• Police say a third friend witnessed the attack in a Rincón de Loix apartment and called Spain’s 112 emergency line near midnight.
• The detained suspect did not resist arrest and confessed, according to Benidorm’s local police.
• National Police investigators have taken over the case while forensic officers process the scene and evidence.
• Authorities seized the vacuum cleaner cable for DNA and fingerprint analysis and have questioned the witness.
• A duty judge ordered the body transferred to the Alicante Institute of Legal Medicine for examination, with complementary forensic tests pending.