Held over hit-run death, tycoon’s son in missing girl quiz
A BRITISH man facing trial over the disappearance of a woman from a Spanish nightclub has been arrested over a fatal hit and run.
Westley Capper is being prosecuted for illegal detention more than a year after Latvian Agnese Klavina vanished from a club in the upmarket resort of Puerto Banus.
Now privately educated Capper, 38, has been questioned in Marbella over a collision involving a Bentley which claimed the life of a woman cyclist.
Sources close to the case said his friend Craig Porter, 34, who is also facing trial over Miss Klavina’s disappearance in September 2014, was with him when he was arrested yesterday at a bar in Estepona.
The alleged hit and run happened around 8.30pm on Monday in San Pedro de Alcantara, a five-minute drive from Puerto Banus.
Witnesses told police the victim, a South American woman aged around 40, was hit by a car travelling ‘at great speed’ while cycling along a main road.
They said the car – said to be a Bentley with UK number plates – failed to stop. The woman was flung nearly 100 feet. She died soon after reaching hospital.
Court officials confirmed last night that Capper, whose Essex-born father John has made a fortune from buying and selling luxury properties across the world, had been remanded in jail. He is thought to have been taken to Alhaurin Prison near Malaga.
They said he is being investigated on suspicion of crimes including manslaughter due to negligence, failure to aid his alleged victim and driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as an offence relating to false documentation.
He has not been formally charged; in Spain the courts do not bring formal charges until shortly before trial.
Capper’s current car of choice is understood to be a Bentley, although previously he has attended court in a Range Rover when being questioned over Miss Klavina’s disappearance.
The whereabouts of Liverpool-born Porter were unclear, although it was reported that police had held him briefly before letting him go home.
Capper and Porter were told last month they were being prosecuted for illegal detention in relation to Miss Klavina’s disappearance. They could be jailed for up to 15 years if convicted.
Lawyers for Miss Klavina’s family had previously appealed for the pair to be jailed ahead of the trial. But a judge rejected their application and said the men could remain on bail. Miss Klavina, 30, spent most of the five years before her disappearance in London but moved to Marbella to start a job at the resort’s Ocean Club. She had been with friends on the night she vanished but they left her partying alone in the Aqwa Mist club. Her clothes and bank cards were found at her nearby flat.