Overview

• 28-year-old woman and 33-year-old man are accused of living with the 74-year-old pensioner’s body to fraudulently collect his monthly payments.
• The couple faces charges of concealing a corpse and misappropriation after withdrawing about €1,500 from the victim’s bank account.
• The retired officer had taken in the pair, their infant child and a nephew before his death, and his daughters alerted police when they could not reach him.
• The body was found locked behind a blocked door in a home in Alicante, and its advanced decomposition has delayed determination of the cause of death.
• A court granted the couple conditional release with periodic appearances as judicial proceedings continue.