A British expat has been arrested in Spain after confessing to having strangled his wife with a telephone cable.
Police and council chiefs have said Warren Lyttle, 50, admitted to killing wife Lisa Jane, 49, in a phone call to the emergency services from the sixth-floor flat where they had been staying for a month near Magaluf.
In a statement to the magistrate, Lyttle claimed that “it was a sex game that got out of hand”.
He was arrested on Saturday in Mallorca in the Balearics where he has lived for about a decade. His wife split her time between Neasden, north London, and Mallorca, Spain, investigators said.
Shortly before 3.30 am on Saturday Lyttle phoned emergency services. The local police and paramedics who responded were not able to save Lisa Jane who had been asphyxiated by the cable of a mobile phone charger.
A spokesman for the Guardia Civil said: “A British man who is resident in Majorca phoned the emergency services at about 3.20am on Saturday morning and confessed during the call to killing his wife.
“The victim was strangled with a telephone cord during a row.”
Police are investigating possible motives for the murder, including marital dispute.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "Following the death of a British national in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, we are in contact with the local authorities and are providing support to the family at this difficult time."
The couple have a 19-year-old daughter.
