The 64-year-old woman, who has not been named, was found dead with stab wounds in an apartment in Orihuela, Costa Blanca in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Her husband, 69, who is also British, is under police guard with a knife wound to his stomach.

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Spanish police rushed to the scene after a neighbour reported the couple shortly before 4am.

They found the woman’s body shortly after arriving before arresting her partner.