A British man is being held in Spain after his girlfriend plunged to her death from the balcony of their holiday apartment in Tenerife.
The woman, Kerry Roberts, 25, is reported to have died instantly after falling from the 12th floor of the building onto a lawn below.
The couple were holidaying in the Apartments Paraiso del Sur resort along with their five-year-old daughter, the suspect’s father and his partner. The senior couple were staying in a neighbouring apartment.
The tragedy occurred around 2 am on Friday. The security guard who found the body alerted the partner. Paramedics on the scene were not able to save the woman.
Local reports said the police took the man into custody after seeing CCTV footage in which the victim was being hit and kicked.
But the police are not any longer treating the death as suspicious, but rather as suicide. It is reported that a police investigation found that the man was not in the same spot as the woman when she fell from the balcony.
The man, however, is likely to appear before an investigating judge on suspicion of domestic violence because of the CCTV images.
No formal charges have yet been made.
