Murdered : The body of Rosemary Broadwell was discovered six months after she went missing near her home in Alicante . A British pensioner has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of murdering his expat partner after her decomposing body was found . Charlie Bevill-Warcup , 75 , was arrested after Rosemary Broadwell 's body was discovered on rubbish-strewn waste ground six months after she went missing . The pensioner was arrested by detectives from the paramilitary Civil Guard . He was interviewed by police soon after mum-of-two Rosemary , 76 , from Hull , vanished on September 15 last year from her home in Algorfa , a small mountain village near the holiday resort of Alicante . Police suspected from the start that Rosemary 's disappearance had not been voluntary after neighbours told them they had heard a row the night before she was reported missing . Authorities searched mountains , lakes and dirt tracks over a vast area in the search for her . Bevill-Warcup had previously told detectives he had dropped her off outside a bank so she could withdraw money - but staff at the bank told police she had never entered the branch . Rosemary 's daughter Cheryl Webster , who is currently out in Spain , said today : ' I 'm obviously devastated . ' I 've been travelling out to Spain every six weeks since my mum disappeared . ' I was n't expecting this on this visit . I got a call from the police last night to say that a man had been arrested and another call this morning to say my mum 's body had been found . ' I have n't had confirmation my mum 's partner is the one in custody but I 've never liked him . 'My mum was living part-time with him but she was preparing to move out and spend more time at her own place and I had been helping her with the move . ' Mrs Broadwell , who was just 4ft 8 inches tall , was well-known in the small town , where she had lived for around ten years . Police are understood to have identified her by a tattoo of a lizard on her foot and another of a dolphin on her right shoulder . A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Alicante said : ' I can confirm the body of a woman thought to be he British expat who went missing last September has been discovered . ' Police said they would have to wait for the results of an autopsy to establish the cause of death . Discovery : Police made the grim discovery on rubbish-strewn waste ground near the town of Algorfa , a small mountain village near the popular holiday resort of Alicante . In an emotional Facebook post made last month , Rosemary 's granddaughter Liza Webster said : ' I do n't even know what to say anymore . 'It 's been five months and still nothing on the disappearance of my grandma . I miss her terribly and not knowing is cruel . 'Someone somewhere must know something and it 's defies all that I 've been taught and known , to be so cruel . 'She 's my Grandma , a rock and my ally . She really is missed by all . '
Charlie Bevill-Warcup arrested after Rosemary Broadwell 's body found . She had been missing from her Costa Blanca home since six months . He had told police he last seen partner after dropping her off at bank . Her heartbroken daughter Cheryl said : ' I 'm obviously devastated '