A man convicted of killing his wife is now believed to have murdered his defence lawyer, with whom he had been having an affair, before taking his own life on Friday 18th January.
Jose Javier Salvador Calvo shot dead his wife, Patricia Maurel Conte, 29, in May 2003 in Spain’s north-eastern region of Aragon.
Released under licence in 2017, the killer began an affair with Rebeca Santamalia Cáncer, 47, the lawyer who had defended him at his trial, Spanish media report.
Police found the lawyer stabbed to death at Salvador Calvo’s home in Aragon’s regional capital, Zaragoza, just after 4am on Friday 18th January after her husband reported her missing.
A few hours earlier, around midnight, the suspected murderer had jumped from a bridge in Teruel, a town 150km (93 miles) to the south, after being spotted by a police patrol.
