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 underneath 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 stated.
“The sufferer informed detectives that she and Gibbon started arguing about his grandchildren,” the workplace stated in a launch.
Raymond allegedly saved shoving his daughter-in-law’s head underneath the water, “stopping her from respiration,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.
The battle continued even after his 9-year-old granddaughter leaped into the pool to save lots of her mother, in keeping with cops.
He lastly launched his daughter-in-law after two bystanders known as the cops, authorities stated.
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 personal villas — with costs of as much as $800 an evening.
The resort’s large pool has synthetic rock options, a water slide, and a lazy river.
