A 32-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for murder over the disappearance and suspected homicide of John George in Alicante.
The person, who’s Japanese European, was cuffed by the Guardia Civil on Tuesday for his alleged connection to the homicide, experiences Informacion.
The physique of John, 37, was believed to have been discovered by Spanish police on Monday afternoon, with official affirmation through fingerprints or DNA pending.
The corpse was mentioned to be in a sophisticated state of decomposition and hidden amongst timber on a rustic property in Rojales, based on police sources quoted by Informacion.
They mentioned the physique was discovered by the Guardia Civil, who instantly known as in forensics to fastidiously take away it forward of identification and an post-mortem.
The sources added that additional arrests haven’t been dominated out as the principle perpetrator of the homicide may nonetheless be at massive.
John (pictured above), 37, was final heard from on December 14, when he made a ‘distressing’ telephone name to his household.
He was attributable to drive from Alicante to Benidorm that day however by no means arrived, with family members having insisted early on that he was ‘lured’ to Spain for a vacation earlier than being shot to loss of life by an acquaintance.
The George household’s solicitor agency KRW mentioned in an announcement that the invention of a physique ends ‘a particularly tortuous course of.’
It mentioned John’s father Billy George notified them shortly after 5pm that Spanish police believed that they had discovered the physique, sparking an official homicide investigation.
KRW Legislation added: “Mr Billy George was instructed that his son’s physique was now in a morgue awaiting formal identification.
“The household are each distressed but in addition relieved at this newest information. It brings to an finish a particularly tortuous search course of for the physique.
“The household need to thank all who’ve helped and supported them during the last variety of days.
“They now respectfully ask for some privateness to permit them each time and house to have interaction on the subsequent harrowing levels on what’s now a formalised homicide investigation.”
Dozens of supporters have flown in from Northern Eire to assist his household search the shoreline and ‘areas of curiosity’.
His father Billy, sister Courtney, brother Darren and a number of different family are amongst these to have scoured totally different elements of Alicante over the previous couple of weeks, together with Cabo Roig and Torrevieja.
A specialist K9 unit was additionally flown in from Northern Eire, however returned dwelling on the weekend after being unable to trace John down.
