Dane's murder in Spain solved
George Mills - [email protected]
Published: 2 Jul, 2014 CET.
Updated: Wed 2 Jul 2014 14:06 CET
A Belgian man has confessed to the murder of Anne Strande Jensen in her Madrid apartment.
The mysterious death of 27-year-old Danish woman Anne Strande Jensen in Madrid has been explained after Spanish police ran a database search on a fingerprint found at the scene. Jensen's body was found in a burning Madrid apartment near the city's Puerta del Sol on June 13th. Spanish police originally treated the death as accidental but an autopsy later revealed she had been strangled with a rope before the fire was lit, Spanish media reported on Wednesday. Police investigations showed the apartment doors had not been forced, suggesting the murderer was known to the Danish woman. A fingerprint found on one of the apartment walls was also key in those investigations, according to Spanish national daily El Mundo. A police database search revealed that the fingerprint belonged to a Belgian man employed by the company that had rented the apartment to Jensen. The print match came up because the man had been previously arrested in Madrid on rape changes in 2011. He was subsequently released by a magistrate pending charges. On June 18th, police arrested the man in a Madrid bar. He then confessed to the murder, giving police details of the crime scene that would not be known to anyone else, Spain's 20 minutos reported. Jensen, an employee of the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, had recently started a six-month assignment in the Spanish capital when she was killed.
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The mysterious death of 27-year-old Danish woman Anne Strande Jensen in Madrid has been explained after Spanish police ran a database search on a fingerprint found at the scene.
Jensen's body was found in a burning Madrid apartment near the city's Puerta del Sol on June 13th.
Spanish police originally treated the death as accidental but an autopsy later revealed she had been strangled with a rope before the fire was lit, Spanish media reported on Wednesday.
Police investigations showed the apartment doors had not been forced, suggesting the murderer was known to the Danish woman.
A fingerprint found on one of the apartment walls was also key in those investigations, according to Spanish national daily El Mundo.
A police database search revealed that the fingerprint belonged to a Belgian man employed by the company that had rented the apartment to Jensen.
The print match came up because the man had been previously arrested in Madrid on rape changes in 2011. He was subsequently released by a magistrate pending charges.
On June 18th, police arrested the man in a Madrid bar.
He then confessed to the murder, giving police details of the crime scene that would not be known to anyone else, Spain's 20 minutos reported.
Jensen, an employee of the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, had recently started a six-month assignment in the Spanish capital when she was killed.
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