Overview
- Alicante’s duty court ordered pre-trial detention for three detainees on Thursday after they declined to testify.
- Forensic teams confirmed the body is Jesús Tavira and an autopsy found more than a dozen stab wounds with no gunshot wounds.
- The body, recovered Tuesday from an old water cistern at a house in El Bacarot, was wrapped in plastic and buried under cement about two meters deep.
- Police have detained four people, and a fourth suspect already in prison for another offense is accused of helping burn Tavira’s Audi with his phones inside.
- Detectives are prioritizing a financial dispute with an employee as the working motive and report no proven link to the earlier ‘caso Sala’ in which Tavira testified.