Tenerife Timeshare Couple Beaten To Death

Spanish police are investigating the murder of a British couple in Tenerife.
It is understood the couple, in their 50s, had lived there for more than 15 years and ran a timeshare business.

Their bodies were found near their home at San Miguel, close to Playa de las Americas, in the south of the island.

The Foreign Office said it would not confirm the couple's names until relatives had been told. Maybe a timeshare related murder, maybe not!

A police spokesman told the Daily Telegraph: "The couple had severe head injuries and everything points to them being the victims of a brutal attack with a heavy object.

"There are no signs of anything being stolen from either of the victims."

The couple once worked for fraudster John "Goldfinger" Palmer, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The Spanish island's timeshare industry is yet to emerge from his shadow after he was jailed for eight years in 2001 for a complex fraud. (Scam, scam, scam, scam)

Up to 17,000 investors, many of them elderly, paid up to £30m for shares in holiday homes they never received.

Palmer, dubbed "Goldfinger" after being acquitted of handling gold from the £26m 1983 Brinks-Mat bullion robbery, was declared bankrupt in 2005. (SCAMMER)

Tenerife journalist Karl McLaughlin told BBC Five Live that Spanish police are investigating whether the couple may have been victims of a timeshare turf war.

He said: "South Tenerife and particularly Playa de las Americas have been in the headlines quite a lot in recent years because of considerable criminal activity.

"There have been many stories of violent patch wars in the timeshare industry.

"There's also an increasing presence of eastern European mafia on the island, we've had several cases of shootings involving Albanians, Kosovars and lately Romanians."

Who would of ever thought the timeshare industry could lead to murder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!