A boxer who allegedly attacked his teenage ex handed himself in to police for her “murder” – but later found out she was alive and had merely fainted.
Javier Sosa, 24, is said to have flown into the fit of rage after Candela Castro, 19, allegedly refused to have sex with him.
Police in Sarmiento, Argentina, say Sosa dragged the woman into a derelict home, hit her and left for for dead.
Plagued by guilt, the boxer handed himself in at a police station but Ms Castro had managed to get to hospital and tell police of the attack.
She said: “He went crazy and started to strangle me with his hands until I fainted. Then he hit me on the head and body with a rock.”
The teenager claimed Sosa had asked to meet up near her mother’s house so he could give her a present for their 10-month-old baby son.
But the struggle allegedly ensued on the street and in the empty property.
It’s alleged Sosa, who practises boxing and karate, has attacked his ex a number of times previously – including when she was pregnant.
Sosa has been detained in police custody and faces serious charges.
The police investigation into the attack continues.