THE WEATHER
Edition 329
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Friday 7th July 2017
A MAN POSSESSED?
British pensioner has told an Elche court that he was "possessed by voices" when he staged a six-month cover up of his dead partner's body, after allegedly killing her in September 2014. Proseuctors have called for a 19-year prison sentence for 77-year-old Charlie Bevill-Warcup, who is alleged to have killed 76year old Quesdada resident Rosie Broadwell with his walking stick at his San Miguel de Salinas home. She had been staying with the defendent whilst her house was being decorated. Bevill-Warcup then dumped her body off the CV-940 road in the Algorfa municipality by the AP7 exit. He told the Alicante Provincial Court hearing in Elche that Mrs.Broadwell was his "princess" and said that she died due to an "accident", and that they had
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a very good relationship. Under questioning from the prosecutor, the British pensioner denied that Rosie had told him that the relationship was over after six and a half years. He was said that they had got on well and that he was a "prince for her". Prosecutors say that the defendant had been drinking with Mrs.Broadwell at his house, and when she went to get some ice from the kitchen for a glass of
whiskey, she slipped onto the floor, and was unable to get up because she had a back problem. Rather than help her up, Bevill-Warcup started to beat her with a walking stick, screaming words that he was "stupid" and that "it was going to carry on all night". The jury was told that Bevill-Warcup had changed his account of what happened a number of times, with the defence claiming that it was an accident, and that in fact it was Mrs.Broadwell who attacked her partner with the stick. They say he managed to snatch it back off her amidst claims that in a scuffle he pushed her and she hit the side of a kitchen worktop, causing her to fall to the floor. He tried to bathe and clean the wound, and covered her with a blanket, before going to bed and discovering her dead the following morning. Medical reports said that that Mrs. Broadwell died of severe blows to the head caused by a traumatic brain injury, and a day later, BevillWarcup took her body to an
area off the CV-940, and covered it up with branches. He then proceeded to behave as if nothing had happened, but under pressure from Mrs.Broadwell's daughter, Cheryl Webster, he filed a missing person report with the Guardia Civil, who became suspicious. He said that he was "in panic" and that he had been "possessed with voices in his head telling him what to do" in regard to covering up her death. Neighbours had told authorities that they had heard screams from his San Miguel home the night before Rosie’s disappearance had been reported. Bevill-Warcup said at the time that Mrs. Broadwell had vanished after he claimed to have taken her to an ATM in Quesada, though the Guardia confirmed that she had never used the machine, or visited any of her regular shopping outlets in the area. In March 2015, BevillWarcup made a statement to the Guardia where he admitted to being involved in her death, and he was immediately arrested.