National Police arrested Torrevieja A British fugitive wanted in the United Kingdom for the murder of his partner in 1990. The man currently arrested fled in 2015 after being released on parole and had a search and arrest warrant currently in effect. Extradition for premeditated murder.
The man under investigation, who used different identities to avoid detection, had no known address in Spain and lived in separate homes of elderly British women with addiction problems or some form of cognitive impairment who provided him with financial support.
The investigation began in May this year. UK authorities, They informed the National Police, through Interpol, that a fugitive convicted of murdering his partner in 1990 could be found in Spain. After being released on parole escaped in 2015 His whereabouts were unknown until his arrest in Torrevieja.
Danger
British authorities informed the police that the fugitive might be around Torrevieja and warned of possible danger.
The information showed that the person under investigation resided at the following address: two recently deceased British citizenssuddenly one of them.
Agents from the central police unit found a British male who was an exact match to the man in the footage. However, since 2017, he had been residing in Spain with a different identity to avoid discovery and was staying in different houses of British women. addiction problems or some type of cognitive impairment.
According to police, British authorities had also provided two registration plates of two vehicles that could have been used by the person under investigation, but both appeared to be clearly abandoned in Torrevieja.
As investigations progressed, the information decisive for his whereabouts concerned his suspected current partner, and investigators were able to identify a British woman whose characteristics matched those described.
Therefore, at the end of last November, agents went to the residence of the alleged partner of the person under investigation. Urbanization in Torrevieja. They set up a surveillance device and when the suspect left the house they detected and arrested him, extraditing him to the UK.