Man arrested on Spanish border after fellow Briton stabbed to death
Ben Nesbitt, 21, from Merseyside, died after being stabbed in the neck
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Your support makes all the difference.Police have arrested a man allegedly trying to flee Spain after a fellow Briton was stabbed to death.
A 21-year-old British man, named in reports as Ben Nesbitt, from Merseyside, died after being stabbed in the neck in the town of Rojales, in Alicante, on Thursday.
Spanish police believe the victim was at a house with a 38-year-old British man, who has not been named, and two others when a fight broke out.
The older Brit is suspected of knifing the victim in the neck, which caused a haemorrhage that led to his death.
Nearby residents raised the alarm after seeing the man calling for help and “bleeding profusely” before he sadly collapsed and died.
The Spanish Civil Guard have revealed the 38-year-old suspect was arrested near the Spanish-French border in Girona, about 400 miles north of the murder scene, after a surveillance operation.
Video footage of the arrest shows the handcuffed man being escorted out of a property by three police officers towards a waiting car.
He was arrested on Friday, the day after the murder, but police only reported the update on Wednesday.
The suspect appeared at Torrevieja Court, in Alicante, before being taken into custody.
The Civil Guard said in a statement: “The Civil Guard of Alicante has arrested the suspect of an intentional homicide that occurred on 1 October in Rojales.
“At about 2.30am on 1 October, residents in the town of Rojales raised the alarm because a man called for help while bleeding profusely.
“When they tried to phone to request an ambulance, the man fainted, lost consciousness and collapsed on the sidewalk.
“As [investigators] have been able to verify, the two implicated were meeting with two other people inside a house in the town of Rojales, Alicante.
“During the meeting, an argument broke out between them, the [suspected killer] stabbing the victim in the neck, causing a haemorrhage that led to his death.
“Subsequently, the suspect fled in a vehicle with the intention of leaving the country.”
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