A British pensioner ‘suffering from Alzheimer’s’ has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing his wife to death with a ‘kitchen knife’ in a frenzied attack on the Costa del Sol.
Police rushed to a property in the resort town of Benalmadena in Malaga on Friday night when the woman, 69, also British, frantically called to say her 80-year-old husband had stabbed her four times – before the phone line suddenly went dead.
Officers arrived at the flat, in the Maite-1 building on Antonio Machado avenue, to discover her dead on the floor of the kitchen-diner with more than 20 stab wounds, while her suspected killer was lying on their bed.
The husband, who has not yet been named, was questioned in the living room of the £130,000 home before being arrested. He is now being held at the local National Police station.
He is said to be suffering from Alzheimer’s, according to respected national newspaper El Español.
Neighbours today recalled the dramatic moment police arrived at the scene, as…
