Eva Esther G.C., aged 34, was found with her hands and feet tied up and a plastic bag over her head.

35 year old Spanish man has been arrested at an address in Cox for the murder of a woman who was found dead in a flat in she owned in Torrevieja on February 23.

Eva Esther G.C., aged 34, was found with her hands and feet tied up and a plastic bag over her head. Sources close to the investigation quoted by Diario Información indicate that the suspect was a prospective tenant who the victim had shown the flat to on the day she died, and who later confessed to police that robbery was the motive for her murder.

The woman’s body was discovered by her brother after she failed to turn up for a meeting they had arranged.

It’s understood that the Civil Guard found the victim’s mobile phone when they searched the address where the suspect was arrested in Cox. The man now in custody has not been named, but he is reported to be from Callosa de Segura.