Alex Trelinski
A MAN has been arrested in Almeria after confessing to strangling a woman with a dog leash before setting fire to her body.
The 28-year-old went to the Policia Nacional on Monday to say he had witnessed a murder.
Minutes later when giving a statement, he broke down and confessed to committing the crime.
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Officers went to a field and discovered the burnt corpse of the 38-year-old Moroccan victim.
The assailant lives in Germany where he is a resident and is married- with his wife said to be pregnant.
He was spending the festive season in Spain with his Almeria-based family.
Police sources said the man and the victim had no previous relationship and that they had met days earlier via a dating app hook-up.
Last Monday, the two of them were in a car close to the Retamar urbanisation, some 20 minutes outside Almeria.
They were both consuming drugs- possibly crack cocaine- and they got into an argument.
During the confrontation, the man strangled the woman with a dog leash.
He then dumped her body in a field and set fire to it.
The Policia Nacional are trying to confirm the identity of the victim via DNA tests.
The attacker has been jailed after a court appearance on Monday.
