Overview

• Emergency services responded around midnight to an apartment in Benidorm’s Rincón de Loix after a third British woman called 112 to report a fight.
• Local police found the victim unresponsive with a vacuum cleaner cable around her neck and arrested a British suspect at the scene.
• Authorities say the detainee confessed and was later taken by a CICU ambulance for a routine medical examination following her arrest.
• The Policía Nacional’s judicial unit has taken over the case, and Policía Científica seized the cable for DNA and fingerprint analysis while interviewing witnesses.
• The autopsy at the Alicante forensic institute provisionally confirms death by strangulation, the motive remains unknown, and reported ages of the women vary across outlets.