A British tourist has been arrested on suspicion of killing his 69-year-old father during a fight at a Spanish holiday camp.
The 45-year-old, named locally as Ian John Bennett, was detained as his father Douglas was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of head injuries.
Mr Bennett senior was allegedly attacked in the early hours of Friday morning at the Castell Montgri campsite near the town of Estartit, on the Costa Brava north of Barcelona, where he had been staying in a mobile home with his wife Gloria and his son, all from Chard in Somerset.
Family and neighbours are stunned and say the father and son had such a loving relationship they have no idea how any fight could have occurred.
Douglas’s brother Bob, 61, said, ‘Doug and Ian were so close it was unreal. I have no idea what could have sparked this. I’m absolutely speechless.’
Police were called by a campsite security guard on Friday morning. At the time Mr Bennett senior was still alive but unconscious. He was taken to Josep Trueta Hospital in nearby Girona but failed to emerge from a coma and died shortly after being admitted. An autopsy was due to take place yesterday to investigate suspicions that he died from a punch to the head or possibly from a head injury sustained while falling.
According to local reports the father and son had a drunken row, which escalated into a fist fight.
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