Spain: Prisoner confesses to the murder in the death of the child Mohamed, with previous convictions for sexual violence.

The police have added the main piece to their investigation into the murder of little Mohamed, 8 years old, yesterday in Ceuta last December with the arrest of a man whom investigators had been following for days after the murder and who has no connection to the little boy’s family did not even know him.

The arrested man, 34 years old and of Spanish nationality, has previous convictions for sexual assault and robbery with intimidation, sources in the investigation told this newspaper.

The alleged murderer of the child ended up seeing himself under police questioning and acknowledged the facts. In the afternoon the police took him to his home to conduct a search. Investigators are investigating the possibility that there are others involved.

The arrest was made after a meticulous investigation which, from the beginning, revolved around the detainee. Mohamed was found dead in a field, pantsless and shot in the head in the early hours of 19 December after not having returned home the previous evening.

The child also had injuries of varying degrees on parts of his body. The results of the autopsy determined a violent death and also indications of sexual violence. Mohamed said goodbye to his parents around 7 p.m. on Sunday, 18 December, after telling them he was going to play football with his friends, a routine he repeated daily. It was not revealed whether he met them or never arrived at the sports centre where they met.

Alarmed by the boy’s lateness, two hours later the family began to become restless. It was not normal for Mohamed to arrive so late without warning, especially when there was school the next day. His parents and his three older siblings started looking for him in the neighbourhood, a newly built urban centre located near the hospital in Ceuta, where everyone knew each other.

They searched the streets, and nearby sports facilities and even went to the homes of the child’s friends. After certifying that the search for him had completely failed, Mohamed’s father went to the police station at 1 a.m. to report him missing. The police then set out to find him and at 07:00 the next morning his body was found in a field.

The officers managed to reach him after discovering the child’s trousers on top of some bushes in an open field.