AN ALICANTE couple have been arrested by the Policia Nacional for living with a man’s dead body for at least two months in order to collect his pension.
The man and woman- aged 28 and 33, were scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.
The A Punt regional broadcaster said they will be charged with committing a crime against moral integrity by hiding the body as well as misappropriation.
The 74-year-old deceased man had worked as a Policia Nacional officer.
At an unspecified time, he took in the couple into his home, as well as a baby, their son, and a nephew.
Their relationship to the man has not been specified or when they started living with him.
Relatives contacted the police that their father was not answering the phone and they had no way of contacting him.
Officers did a wellness check and found his body in a locked room which had its doorway blocked.
Due to the advanced state of decomposition, investigators were not able to make an initial assessment of cause of death.
That will be determined by an autopsy and other tests to see if the retiree suffered a natural or violent death.
