The horrifying homicide of three siblings; Amelia, 67, Ángeles, 74, and José Gutiérrez Ayuso, 77, who have been discovered at their residence final week has taken a brand new twist this week as a Pakistani nationwide turned himself in.
He was arrested instantly and is being held in custody.
The triple-murder befell within the municipality of Morata de Tajuña, a village of round 5,000 folks, within the southeast of the Madrid area. The victims have been discovered, partially burned of their residence.
In response to a police assertion, the suspect, a 43 year-old Pakistani man, turned himself in on Sunday night time, confessing to “his involvement in incidents associated to the triple homicide”. The police are investigating a potential on-line romance rip-off that led to them falling into debt to the scammer.
Neighbours had raised issues after not seeing the 2 sisters and their disabled brother for a while, prompting an investigation that exposed their deaths have been being handled as murders linked to the debt.
The detained particular person, refrred to solely as D.H.F.C, was the ‘primary suspect’ within the case as he had ‘beforehand injured one of many feminine victims final yr’, the police mentioned.
Spanish media reported that there’s a connection between the murders and a fraudulent on-line romance, and that the 2 sisters had engaged in what they believed to be a long-distance relationship with two alleged US servicemen.
The rip-off concerned convincing the sisters that one of many servicemen had handed away and the opposite required funds to ship them a multi-million-dollar inheritance, inflicting the sisters to rack up vital money owed.
Initially they started borrowing cash from neighbours with the city’s mayor Francisco Villalain telling Spanish media they’d rented out a room of their residence to the Pakistani suspect for a number of months.
Throughout that point, the suspect had reportedly lent them €60,000 which they’d by no means repaid, prompting his violent assault on one of many sisters for which he was briefly jailed.
‘They weren’t asking for €100 or €20, they have been asking you for €5,000 or €6,000,’ one neighbour had advised Spain’s nationwide broadcaster TVE on Friday.
Enrique Velilla, a neighborhood man who was a good friend of the siblings, advised the BBC that the ladies’s insistence on sending cash to their supposed boyfriends had induced them to promote a property they owned in Madrid.
He additionally mentioned that their requests for cash had induced their financial institution to warn them a couple of potential rip-off.
“We advised them that it was all a lie, that it was a rip-off,” he mentioned. “However they didn’t need to hear the phrase ‘rip-off”.
They have been bizarre individuals who fell in love.”
The investigation continues.
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