Saturday, September 06, 2008
British teenager found dead in Tenerife ditch
The Press Association report merely says that a 17-year-old was reported missing after failing to return to his hotel in the resort of Playa de las Americas, in the south of the island, although they add that a newspaper has said the teenager was murdered and his body found on waste ground close to the hotel where he had been staying with friends. The newspaper who appear to have jumped to that sensationalist conclusion is the, The Sun (need we say more?) and, there are various other discrepancies between reports.
According to local newspaper, EL DÍA, the body of the youngster was found yesterday morning, in the Barranco de Troya (the dried up riverbed which divides the tourist zones of Arona and Adeje) that communicates the area known as Las Terrazas and the infamous Las Verónicas strip. That report says that it is possible that his death was caused by a fall.
The teenager, apparently named by the Daily Express as 17-year-old Max Sumner, was reported missing on Thursday after failing to return to his hotel. It's reported that he went out with friends on Wednesday night, then went off on his own. Think Spain also report that autopsy results will confirm cause of death, but that police believe he died accidentally.
While the EL DÍA report says that the boy's father travelled to the island to join in the hunt for his son, La Opinión say that the 17-year-old British youth, born 2nd November, 1990 was named Nicolás S.B. and had come to the island with his parents and, were staying in the Hotel Oro Blanco in Arona.
Although no link between the two events is suggested, the same La Opinión report goes on to mention that Arona police were called to a restaurant in the basement of the Margarita building, where, it appears, the 45-year-old proprietor, of British nationality, had committed suicide by hanging.
Photo: Playa Bobo, Playa de las Americas. Tenerife-Photo
