3 Aug, 2021 @ 16:15
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Neighbour helped load body into car after hearing ‘cock and bull’ story in Malaga

Spain-wide appeal to find kidnap gang boss who snatched Costa Blanca couple during summer
Spain-wide appeal to find kidnap gang boss who snatched Costa Blanca couple during summer

A MAN who allegedly beat his expat wife to death got a suspicious neighbour to help load her body into his car, claiming he was taking the victim to hospital after she had a fall.

The alleged killer had been trying to put the body in his car when he was surprised by the neighbour, who helped him when given the bizarre explanation.

Instead of heading to the hospital he drove the corpse to a secluded spot and set it on fire.

But the neighbour had by then called the police having realized the body was cold and spotting a trail of blood.

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Police then reviewed security camera footage and identified the man responsible and waited for his return to his Rincon de La Victoria (Malaga) home.

In the meantime the alleged killer – a 53-year-old Spaniard – had driven 40 kilometres to Maro where he dumped the body of his 36-year-old Russian wife in a secluded spot and set her on fire.

A passerby spotted the blaze and called police who extinguished the flames.

On his return to his house, the alleged killer was immediately arrested. Police found a blow torch on the front seat of the man’s car.

A post mortem examination will be carried out to find the cause of death.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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