British man ‘beats German tourist to death at posh Spanish resort after catching him filming his daughter on an iPad’
By Steve Hopkins for MailOnline
- The British man saw recordings of his daughter on the victim's device
- The victim had earlier been charged with possessing child pornography
- The British man is being held on suspicion of homicide and is due in court
Published: 14:24 GMT, 9 February 2015 | Updated: 14:34 GMT, 9 February 2015
A British man has been arrested for allegedly killing a German man he caught filming his young daughter in a restaurant at a Spanish resort.
The 40-year-old has been held on suspicion of homicide after attacking a 43-year-old in Sotogrande on Spain's Costa del Sol on Saturday night.
The victim had been charged with possession of child pornography days earlier, but it is not known if the British man knew that.
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A British has been arrested for allegedly killing a German mad he caught filming his young daughter in a restaurant in Sotogrande on Spain's Costa del Sol on Saturday night
The girl's father approached the man after seeing him filming with a tablet device, a source with the Civil Guard police force in Algeciras said.
'He took the tablet off him, saw that there were recordings of his daughter, and that was when the attack took place,' he said.
The source said no weapons were involved in the attack. The German man later died in hospital.
Police are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine his cause of death.
The British man left the restaurant after the attack but was later arrested when witnesses identified him to police.
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The girl's father approached the man after seeing him filming with a tablet device, a source with the Civil Guard police force in Algeciras said; a weapon was not used in the assault
He is in police custody and will soon appear before a magistrate in the nearby town of La Linea de la Concepcion.
The source said it was thought that the two men did not know each other.
With big houses and golf courses overlooking the blue waters of the Mediterranean, Sotogrande is one of the most upmarket resorts in a southern region popular with British tourists.