Charlie Bevill-Warcup was held last night over the death of Rosemary Broadwell, who had been missing from her Spanish village for six months
A British pensioner has been arrested in Spain after police found the decomposing body of his partner six months after she went missing.
Rosemary Broadwell, 76, vanished on September 15 from the mountain village of Algorfa near Alicante on the south-eastern holiday coast.
Her partner Charlie Bevill-Warcup, 75, reported her missing after saying he had left her using a cashpoint near the home they shared..
Detectives from the paramilitary Civil Guard at Algorfa arrested him last night after he allegedly confessed to killing his partner.
Reports said that he had told the officers, who had been investigating the Rosemary's disappearance, that he had beaten her with a blunt instrument.
Early today he took the detectives to an area of open ground where her badly decomposed body was found, they said.
Later an autopsy confirmed that Rosemary had been beaten to death.
Rosemary went missing after being given a lift into the centre of Cuidad Quesada at around 11am on September 15, an appeal by her family said.
Standing at just 4ft 8in, she was described as a "fit, well and able-bodied lady" with perfectly manicured fingernails and a tattoo of a lizard on her foot.
She often drove her white Renault Twingo with gold flash stripes on each side round the Cuidad Quesada area of Algorfa.
Rosemary also walked her two Shih Tzus Mollie and Benji and her Bichon/Maltese Terrier Alfie.
Her daughter Cheryl Webster has been in regular contact with Spanish police.
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