Expat ‘stabbed wife to death after sex’ Brit found beside her ‘in suicide bid’
A BRIT who feared his Spanish wife was going to leave him allegedly murdered her at their luxury villa straight after having sex with her.
Court papers claim Geoffrey Elton, 56, tried to suffocate Gloria Tornay with his hand, then attempted to strangle her.
As she tried to flee, the documents allege, he chased her through their £450,000 home welding a kitchen knife and stabbed her 11 times.
Elton was found soaked in blood beside Gloria’s body after allegedly trying to kill himself and was saved by medics.
The papers claim he had shut off the power at the villa in Estepona, near Marbella, after telling their 15-year-old son to leave – and threw out all of their phones to slow the arrival of help, “ensuring the success of his actions”.
Spanish prosecutors claim Elton acted in fury after learning that mum-of-two Gloria, 58, had been planning to leave him.
The papers emerged as prosecutors demanded a 14-year term and £180,000 in compensation for her children if he is found guilty. In an indictment submitted to a judge ahead of trial, they state: “Geoffrey Miles Elton was in the home he shared with his wife and their son.
“With the obvious intention of ending her life after having sex with her in their bedroom, suddenly and totally unexpectedly [ he] hit her in the face as he put his hand over her mouth to suffocate her. He then proceeded to strangle her and when he wasn’t able to… used a 5.7-inch kitchen knife to stab her 11 times.”
Documents say Gloria suffered a stab wound to her back and had consumed alcohol, morphine and methadone.
Elton’s younger brother, Simon, had visited the couple shortly before Gloria’s death in March last year.
Under online photos of them in a loving embrace at a beach bar near the port of Sotogrande, he wrote: “Lovely lunch with my brother and Co. in the sunshine.”
Elton had retired at 50 after running a successful satellite installation firm and also had a holiday home in Florida.
Pals claim Gloria, one of eight children from Montejaque, in southern Spain, had been planning to leave him.
An acquaintance said Elton was “increasingly paranoid” and reclusive, fearing his family were spying on him. A source said prosecutors will not seek a life term if Elton is convicted as they accept a mental disorder “led to him suffering delusions”. A trial date is yet to be set.