A 38-year-old Spanish woman was in a critical condition in Son Dureta hospital yesterday after falling from a third floor balcony of a property in calle Gruta in Can Pastilla in the early hours of yesterday morning .
Residents discovered her body on a terrace and the National police and ambulance services were called. At the scene of the tragedy, officers discoverd that a 38-year-old man had moved the body and had been mopping up the spill of blood. The man was arrested immediately and taken into police custody.
The victim was given first aid on the spot but due to the seriousness of a profusely bleeding head wound, was transferred immediately to Palma's Son Dureta hospital. Neighbours reported that shortly before the fall, the arrested man had been having a blazing row with the victim. Later yesterday morning, the police investigated the property from where the fall had occurred. Officers were meanwhile interviewing neighbours.