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08/03/2013
Business Acquitted Of Tenerife Murder
A British man has been cleared of killing a fellow tourist in Tenerife.
It was alleged he threw Garry Walton, 21, of County Waterford, Ireland, overboard from a boat in 1996.
Garry drowned on an excursion off Playa de Las Americas in November 1996.
A jury at Santa Cruz court in Tenerife cleared businessman Darren Saptead, now 38, of Chelmsford, Essex, of the homicide charges.
The case centred on the testimony of two sisters who had changed their account.
In their written verdict the jury said: "the sisters changed their story many times between 1996 and today whereas the defendant has always given the same version since the beginning."
(GK)
It was alleged he threw Garry Walton, 21, of County Waterford, Ireland, overboard from a boat in 1996.
Garry drowned on an excursion off Playa de Las Americas in November 1996.
A jury at Santa Cruz court in Tenerife cleared businessman Darren Saptead, now 38, of Chelmsford, Essex, of the homicide charges.
The case centred on the testimony of two sisters who had changed their account.
In their written verdict the jury said: "the sisters changed their story many times between 1996 and today whereas the defendant has always given the same version since the beginning."
(GK)
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