Second Briton in custody over Costa killer

A second Briton was remanded in custody yesterday in connection with the killing of two teenage girls on the Costa Del Sol.

Robert Graham, 39, from Salford, Greater Manchester, was arrested as a suspected accomplice to Tony King, who has confessed to Spanish police that he murdered the two teenagers.

Mr Graham, who was arrested on Saturday, is being held in Alhaurin de la Torre after a judge concluded that he had been aware of the actions of Mr King, according to Spanish National Radio.

DNA tests have confirmed that Mr King, 38, is actually Tony Bromwich, known as the Holloway Strangler, who served five years of a 10-year sentence for a string of sex attacks in the 1980s. Mr King, a bartender from Holloway, north London moved to Spain six years ago. He reportedly befriended Mr Graham while the pair were in prison together.

Police are conducting further tests to establish if Mr King was responsible for a number of unsolved sex attacks.

Sonia Carabantes, 17, was found strangled and naked five days after disappearing from her home town of Coin last month.

Rocio Wanninkhof, 19, who disappeared from Mijas in October 1999, was stabbed 11 times and her throat had been slashed.