Costa Blanca vet who incinerated wife may have operated on her in his surgery, inadvertently causing her death
Monday, April 8, 2013 @ 3:27 PM
A VET in Benijófar (Alicante) who confessed to chopping up his wife's body and incinerating her may have caused her death by operating on her in his surgery, Pet Care Veterinary Clinic.
The accused, a 45-year-old Argentinian national – as was his wife, who was aged 46 - claimed the victim had died from a massive overdose of a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs and that he tried to revive her but without success.
She is believed to have a history of suicide attempts by overdosing due to depression largely caused by suffering from obesity.
Police now believe her husband tried to perform a stomach-reduction operation on her in the clinic, but this went wrong and he was unable to revive her, so he panicked, cut up her body at the family home in neighbouring Dolores, and sent it to a deceased pet incineration company claiming the contents of the bags were the remains of a very large dog.
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