Costa Blanca
Man arrested for the murder of German pensioner couple
By h.b. - Jun 19, 2008 - 8:14 AM
email this articleThe 78 and 85 year old couple were stabbed to death at their home in Teulada last Monday night.
A 20 year old Romanian man has been arrested by police in Madrid in connection with the death of a German pensioner couple who were stabbed to death last Monday night in their attic flat home in Teulada.
The arrested man had been working as the gardener in the complex where the Germans, aged 78 and 85, had previously lived in Benissa, and police think that he knew that the couple had a large amount of money in cash as they were about to purchase a villa. The accused is said to have taken that money from the couple’s safe.
Informacíon newspaper in Alicante reports this morning that the accused was turned into the police by his girlfriend. He will go before the court in Dénia later today.
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