https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/body-young-woman-22-found-30176699?utm_source=mirror_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_evening_newsletter2&utm_medium=emailBody of young woman, 22, found bricked up inside wall nine years after she disappeared
Suspect Marco Gaio Romeo confessed to killing Sibora Gagani, 22, after being detained for killing Paula another of his former partners in Torremolinos, Spain
By Katie Weston Senior News Reporter
15:28, 7 Jun 2023
Spanish police have found the body of a young woman bricked up in a wall after she went missing in 2014. Officers had abandoned the search for Sibora Gagani, 22, but resumed a few days after the arrest of her former partner last month. Suspect Marco Gaio Romeo was detained for killing Paula, another of his former partners, in Torremolinos, Malaga Province after being spotted entering and leaving her home. Paula, a 28-year-old from Italy, was allegedly stabbed 14 times by Romeo, who is the father of one of her three children. Following his arrest for her murder, the 45-year-old confessed to killing Sibora after seeing her picture on a bulletin board at the police station. He admitted to using acid to dissolve her body. National Police officers who searched the former couple's flat in Torremolinos found Sibora's remains in a bin bag in a cavity behind a wall on 6th June. The apartment, which is located a stone's throw from the Local Police station and the Town Hall, had been searched several times before but to no avail. It is currently occupied by other tenants, who have been cooperating with the police throughout the investigation. The remains have been sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Malaga to confirm Sibora's identity via DNA testing. The woman, who was born in Albania and had Italian citizenship, moved with Romeo to the Costa del Sol in 2011. She disappeared on July 7, 2014, shortly after breaking up with him. After hearing of Romeo's arrest, Sibora's relatives, who live in Italy, immediately suspected that he was behind her disappearance. Prior to admitting his guilt, the suspect had maintained that his former partner had left the flat with all her belongings. Officers have since found her old photos and her personal belongings hidden in the apartment.
