The police are battling to unravel what made a heartless husband to murder his wife with a telephone wire before calling the police.
Jane's mother-in-law Joan Lyttle (left) with Jane Lyttle (right)
A woman has met cruel fate in the hands of her husband after she was stangled to death with a telephone wire.
The British woman was found strangled to death in the tourist resort of Calvia in Mallorca at her home on the Costa de la Calma. She was identified as Jane Lyttle, aged 49-years.
Her husband Warren Lyttle, 50, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He allegedly called police at 3am on Saturday morning and confessed to strangling his wife to death with a telephone wire at their home.
Doctors rushed to the scene and tried to revive the woman, who was in cardiac arrest, but could not save her. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police reported that the woman had marks to her neck and appears to have been strangled.
The man is being held in custody after the Civil Guard took over the investigation. He is expected to go before a magistrate on Sunday or Monday.
The Mirror reports that the couple had lived in Mallorca for more than a decade and have a daughter. El Mundo newspaper identified the woman as L.J. and the husband with the initials W.L.