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ARCHIVED - Body of missing Lorca man found wedged between two houses 200 metres from his home
The 71-year-old was reported missing in the Region of Murcia on Sunday July 17
The body of a 71-year-old Lorca man has been found wedged between two houses just 200 metres from his home three days after he was reported missing.
The owner of one of the houses in Calle Juan Pérez, next to Santa Maria Church, made the grisly discovery on Wednesday morning, July 20 after following "a trail of blood". It's believed the elderly victim was trying to take a short cut, although family members suspect foul play.
"It was six o'clock in the morning. I left the house as I do every day and was on my way to work when I noticed that there was a spot of blood in the street. I followed the trail and I found a dead person," the resident told Spanish press.
He immediately called the police and at first didn't realise the body was actually that of his neighbour, José Sola Aracil, who the local community had been searching for since his disappearance on Sunday July 17.
"It didn't look like him. I am very upset, because I knew him. I can't get his image out of my mind. I can't stop thinking about the poor man, about the circumstances he had to go through."
Within moments of the alarm being raised, several National Police Corps units had arrived and cordoned off the entire area, from the entrance to the atrium of the old Santa María Church and the neighbouring sports field to the residential area next to the Castle ring road.
At 8.30am, two fire engines and crews were on the scene to remove the body.
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Juan Carlos González from Lorca Fire Station, explained: "(The deceased) was between the walls of two houses, a very small space of only about 20 centimetres approximately, so it was not easy to get him out and took a long time.
"We don't know how it could have happened. It will be up to the National Police to determine that."
According to sources close to the case, early investigations suggest the deceased walked along a path at the end of the sports courts behind the church where, after a few metres there's a slope of earth with metre-high bushes on either side behind the two houses where he was found.
The path exit is closed with an iron fence, so police believe he may have tried to leave the path by squeezing through the gap between the two houses and got stuck.
Pending the result of a post mortem, which will provide more details about the cause of death, it is believed that he passed out due to the intense heat of late and died on Sunday, remaining wedged between the walls until he was discovered.
However, a nephew of José, who lived with his sister, is not convinced his death was an accident.
Hours after his uncle's body was discovered, Francisco Javier García said that "it seems practically impossible this was accidental or unintentional".
In his opinion, "it looks as if someone has taken him there, moved the body to that place. We don't know what happened before, we'll see what the post mortem says, but I don't think it was accidental. It is a difficult place to access. It took a long time to get him out."
An investigation is underway into exactly what happened.
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