Edition 204
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Friday 16th January 2015
HOUSE OF DEATH
EX-WIFE AND SISTER KILLED BEFORE SUICIDE HANGING By ALEX TRELINSKI A 68 year old Elche man used an iron bar to bludgeon his former wife and her sis ter to death at their El Altet home on Monday before hanging himself. The three bodies were found in the Los Limoneros Urbanisation and it has emerged that the killer had been acquit ted in a domestic violence trial back in November 2013, after he had been accused of psychological abuse. Luis CC left a note confessing his crimes in killing his expartner 70 year old Teresa and her 64 year old sister Natividad at their house on Monday afternoon. The emer gency services were called when the boyfriend of Nativdad’s daughter called at the home at around 2.00pm and got no reply on the intercom system. He jumped over the fence to see what was going on and spotted blood on the inside door and floor. Two ambulances arrived at the scene but all three people were immediately pro nounced as dead in what was the first instance of domestic violence deaths in Spain in 2015. The incident shocked local residents in what is viewed as a quiet area with homes empty except for weekends and holidays which explained why the alarm was not raised earlier due to the likelihood of shouts and screams. The 68 year old perpetrator was an electri cian by trade and according to reports from relatives of the victims, had been threatening
revenge on his exwife and her sister because of a divorce settle ment that he viewed as unfavourable to him. There are sugges tions that he also demand ed money from them on a regular basis and that he had threat ened to commit suicide before. All three deceased were regis tered within the Santa Pola dis trict and a minute’s silence to remember the victims of domes tic violence was held in the Town Hall there(pictured) and in other centres in Alicante Province, including Elche on Tuesday. "We gathered here today to remember Teresa and Natividad, two innocent women who have been victims of senseless and barbaric gender violence," said Santa Pola’s Women and Equality councillor, Ana Blasco.
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