Police in Tenerife are reportedly investigating the death of a British man after he allegedly stole a car outside a shopping centre less than 24 hours into his holiday.
The man is said to have taken the Mitsubishi car at the San Eugenio shopping centre in Costa Adeje, in the south-west of the Canary island, at about 2pm on Friday. A woman inside the car was injured as he made off, according to the Spanish newspaper Diario de Avisos.
He allegedly crashed the car on the TF-1 motorway and unsuccessfully tried to steal two more vehicles, before running along the motorway and jumping over the barrier.
He was found dead at around 7pm, wearing only a pair of shorts, on a roundabout on the outskirts of the popular resort of Los Cristianos, the newspaper reported. The cause of death is unknown.
The man, who has been identified in some reports as a 30-year-old from Lanarkshire, is said to have been on holiday with two friends who became separated from him and who have told investigators he was “unpredictable” when drunk.
He is understood to have been wearing a bracelet for the resort where he was supposed to be staying, though he had yet to spend a night there having only arrived in Tenerife the previous day.
