The Civil Guard has arrested a 47-year-old man in Torrevieja accused of killing his 54-year-old roommate on Friday morning following an argument over money. The man had suffered a severe blow to the head, although it has not been revealed with what type of blunt object the fatal attack was carried out.
The alleged murder occurred shortly before two-thirty on Friday morning in a property located on Calle La Loma, half a dozen streets inland from Playa la Cura.
The now arrested man raised the alarm and called the police to report that he found his roommate dead on arriving back home.
The Civil Guard arrived at the scene where they found a deceased man lying in a pool of blood, which is why the protocol for this type of violent death was activated.
Agents from the Judicial Police and the Criminalistics Laboratory of the Civil Guard were mobilised to go to attend the scene while the Torrevieja court was also notified so that the judicial commission could authorise the removal of the corpse.
Investigators took a statement from the victim’s roommate, following which they interviewed neighbours in the property with one of them telling the Civil Guard that he heard a loud argument related to money and then a blow.
The victim’s body was taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Alicante in order to perform an autopsy and clarify whether he died from a single blow to the head, or whether there were further injuries.
Both the victim and the aggressor are of Spanish nationality and the detainee already had a criminal record, including threats, abuse in the family and gender violence.
With the information gathered from neighbours, the roommate’s statement and the visual inspection of the home, the investigators concluded that the man reporting the discovery of the body was trying to coverup the reality, at which point they proceeded to arrest hime as the author of a crime of murder.
Calle La Loma street was previously the scene of a macabre crime in September 2016, when a man was murdered and his dismembered body was found in the Elche landfill.
