An Englishman’s getaway throughout the pond ended with him in a jail cell with an tried homicide cost — after he allegedly tried to drown his daughter-in-law within the pool.
Mark Raymond, 62, from Beaconsfield, England, allegedly held his daughter-in-law’s head below water on the luxurious Solterra Resort close to Orlando — as his terrified 9-year-old granddaughter fought to cease him, the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
“The sufferer advised detectives that she and Gibbon started arguing about his grandchildren,” the workplace mentioned in a launch.
Raymond allegedly stored shoving his daughter-in-law’s head below the water, “stopping her from respiratory,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The wrestle continued even after his 9-year-old granddaughter leaped into the pool to avoid wasting her mother, in response to cops.
He lastly launched his daughter-in-law after two bystanders referred to as the cops, authorities mentioned.
Raymond has been charged with two counts of battery and one rely of second-degree homicide.
The alleged crime occurred on the Solterra Resort in Davenport, a sprawling luxurious getaway that provides non-public villas — with costs of as much as $800 an evening.
The resort’s huge pool has synthetic rock options, a water slide, and a lazy river.
