STRANGLE WITNESS 'RANG SPANISH COPS IN PANIC'

She'd seen Irish woman being 'killed with cord'

- BY PAUL HEALY Crime Correspondent

THE family of an Irishwoman found strangled to death in Spain are awaiting the release of her body, as more harrowing details have emerged.

Catherine ‘Cat’ Peckham, 66, who is originally from Cork, but is understood to have resided in the UK, died after a woman known to her is alleged to have used the flex cord of a vacuum cleaner to strangle her to death at an apartment in Benidorm.

Now it has emerged that it is alleged that Ms Peckham, whose maiden name is Murray, was on holiday and in the company of two other women when the violent row broke out late in the night on September 17.

It is alleged that the three women were in the same apartment when an argument broke out and one of them, a British woman known to the victim, took the cord and wrapped it around Ms Peckham’s neck.