Briton Simon Carley-Pocock, 58, was found dead at his white-washed, stone-walled cottage in Serro da Vinha, Pereiro, near the border town of Alcoutim, by GNR police during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Twenty-year-old Eugénio Filipe Reicha was stopped by PSP police while driving Carley-Pocock’s Audi A4. Suspecting the vehicle had been stolen, PSP police requested GNR officers visit the Briton’s property, where they found his lifeless body.
Other reports state Reicha confessed to the murder while being quizzed by the PSP about driving the vehicle.
Simon Carley-Pocock, who the British media claim was an accountant and had moved to Portugal several years ago after being diagnosed with a “serious illness”, which some reports said was HIV, is thought to have been killed sometime between Thursday (31 March) and Saturday (2 April).
PJ police are investigating and confirmed they have detained the suspect, who will await trial in custody.In a statement, the PJ said the suspect was arrested “for the presumed crime of aggravated murder and theft.
“The detainee, inside a house located in the Pereiro area of Alcoutim, following an altercation with the owner of the property, a 58-year-old man, armed himself with a weapon and struck the victim with several blows to the abdomen, causing his death.
“He then seized the victim’s vehicle and several objects before being intercepted in Faro for driving without legal authorisation.”
According to reports in the national press, cuff links were among the stolen objects found inside the Audi being driven by Reicha, who is understood to have killed his victim with a spear-like object.
While the circumstances leading up to the Briton’s death are still being investigated, one possible scenario put forward by the media is that Reicha worked as a rent boy and had met with Carley-Pocock for a sexual liaison.
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