32-year-old man arrested after beaten-up woman found on a beach in Marbella

8/24/23, 9:20 AM By Costas News Costa del Sol

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Marbella for an alleged crime of gender violence following an incident in the early hours of August 11th. Local Police officers were attending to a traffic accident on the main Avenida Severo Ochoa at 3:40am when they saw a woman trying to jump out of a moving car at high speed.

The woman, who was in the passenger seat, was screaming for help as they drove past with the door open and a leg outside the vehicle, which the officers identified as a black Seat Ibiza.

The police were unable to chase the vehicle as they were still attending to the accident so they alerted other police patrol units by radio, as the car sped away in the direction towards the Marbella arch.

The 092 Local Police control room assisted patrols as they had captured the Seat on traffic surveillance cameras and gave them the registration number of the vehicle.

Eventually, the patrols intercepted and stopped the Seat on the Río Real residential development. The driver had blood-stains on his clothes and had swollen hands, and the passenger seat was also covered in blood.

However, the woman was no longer in the car, so officers asked him where she was. He admitted to them that she was his girlfriend and that he had left her by the beach, telling police: "I lost my mind".

Following this, the police searched the beach with torches and spotted, in a pitch-black area, a semi-conscious woman who did not respond to them when they tried to ask if she was okay and who she was.

Evidence at the scene suggested the woman, in her early 30s, had been dragged from the car and abandoned. She was covered in bruises, had suffered a cut on her chin and there was blood on her clothes, so she was immediately rushed to hospital for treatment.

The 32-year-old Spanish man was detained for an alleged crime of gender violence. He tested positive for alcohol, although the rate was below the established legal minimum - which is 0.25mlg, However, based on security camera footage, he was also accused of reckless driving.