Image caption Ms Visser is seen here playing in the European Women's Volleyball Championships in 2009 
 
 Spanish police believe the murders of former Dutch volleyball star Ingrid Visser and her partner in south-eastern Spain may have been business-related. 
 
 Their bodies were found in a shallow grave in a lemon grove, two weeks after they disappeared in the region. 
 
 An ex-director of a Spanish volleyball club is among three people arrested. 
 
 Murcia's police chief told reporters there appeared to have been a business disagreement between the couple and the suspects. 
 
 Ms Visser, 35, disappeared along with her partner Lodewijk Severein, 57, on 13 May, shortly after after checking into a hotel in the city of Murcia. 
 
 They were supposed to meet a doctor the next day, but failed to turn up, and the authorities were alerted. Their rental car was found on a city street more than a week later. 
 
 Volunteers plastered the walls of the city with posters appealing for information about the missing couple. 
 
 The search dominated the Dutch media. Ms Visser was a popular player, who held the record for the number of appearances for the national side, the BBC's Anna Holligan reports from The Hague. 
 
 The couple's bodies were found in a grove on Sunday evening, a day after police arrested the suspects in the city of Valencia, to the north. 
 
 Their investigation led them to a house in Molina de Segura, a town outside Murcia, and the shallow grave nearby. 
 
 One of the suspects was named by Spanish media as Juan Cuenca Lorente, 36, former director of Murcia's volleyball team. Ms Visser played for the team from 2009 to 2011. 
 
 The other two suspects are Romanian men. 
 
 Murcia's chief of police, Cyril Duran, told reporters that there had been "certain business disagreements" between the murdered couple and the three men under arrest, the local newspaper La Opinion de Murcia reports. 
 
 No details of the disagreements were given, the national daily El Pais reports. ||||| ««« previous next »»» Arrests as bodies of missing Dutch couple found in Spain Spanish police have arrested at least one person following the discovery of what is thought to be the bodies of missing Dutch international volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her partner Lodewijk Severin. The bodies were found buried in a shallow grave in a lemon grove close to a house in the village of Alquerías, some 12 kilometres from Murcia, local media reported. 
 
 
 
 Indentification still has to be confirmed by dna but the bodies 'are extremely tall which is a good indication it is the missing couple,' a police spokesman told the Dutch media Appointments The couple disappeared in Murcia on May 13 and police found no trace of them since they checked into their hotel. Their hire car was later found on a Murcia street. Visser's family alerted the police after the couple failed to turn up for an appointment in the Netherlands. They also failed to meet a hospital appointment in Spain where some reports say they were due for fertility treatment. Spanish police are keeping details of the probe secret 'in the interests of their investigation', news agency ANP said. 
 
 
 
 Raid However, police did say they raided an apartment in Murcia on Friday where they found evidence of a violent crime. One man was then arrested. 
 
 
 
 Reports that two others, possibly Romanian nationals, have also been picked up are untrue, Nos television quoted Spanish police as saying. However, RTL says police have told it two other men were picked up in Valencia on Monday and are aged 60 and 47. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Spanish police arrest suspect in Dutch boy's 1998 murder 
 
 Dutch police investigating the death of schoolboy Nicky Verstappen in 1998 say their prime suspect has been arrested in northern Spain. 
 
 Jos Brech was identified as a suspect after the Netherlands' biggest ever DNA harvesting operation, which included his relatives. 
 
 It gave police a vital clue linking him to DNA on Nicky Verstappen's clothes. 
 
 Mr Brech is due to be extradited to his home country, where he faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder. 
 
 "Jos B, 55, a suspect in the death of Nicky Verstappen was arrested in Spain on Sunday afternoon. He was taken into custody and will be handed over to the Netherlands," said a statement from police in Limburg, the southern Dutch province where the boy disappeared. 
 
 The arrest follows a public appeal last week, during which detectives shared photographs of the suspect. A Dutchman living in Spain recognised the man in the photos and tipped off police. 
 
 Image copyright Netherlands Police Image caption Nicky Verstappen was found dead in the forest on a summer camp trip 
 
 Nicky, then aged 11, was at a summer camp in August 1998 when he vanished from his tent. His body was discovered in the forest the following day. 
 
 Jos Brech, who lived nearby, was reported missing earlier this year, following the largest DNA testing project ever in the Netherlands. 
 
 One of the only pieces of evidence in the case was DNA discovered on Nicky's clothing. 
 
 Image copyright Policia Nacional Image caption Jos Brech (in green) was arrested near Barcelona 
 
 More than 14,000 men voluntarily provided samples to the investigation. Police hoped a relative of the person whose DNA was found would take part, thus narrowing the search. 
 
 Mr Brech did not participate. He had been spotted near the scene of the crime in 1998. He was later interviewed as a witness by police, but was thought to be an innocent passer-by. 
 
 He travelled to eastern France last year and was reported missing by his family in April. Police then examined his home and discovered he was a 100% match for the DNA found on Nicky's body. 
 
 A killing that shocked the Netherlands 
 
 By Anna Holligan, BBC News, The Hague 
 
 This murder mystery has horrified and captivated the Dutch for two decades. 
 
 Nicky Verstappen, the freckle-faced schoolboy, was adopted as a symbol of an unfathomable, faceless threat to our children. 
 
 Now the prime suspect in his murder is in custody in Spain, and a European arrest warrant issued last week is expected to facilitate his return to the country where the grotesque crime was committed. 
 
 The Netherlands is buzzing with a desire for justice, and in some cases revenge. 
 
 If Jos Brech denies the charges, the challenge for prosecutors will be to ensure emotion does not affect the suspect's right to a fair hearing in court. 
 
 Image copyright Netherlands Police Image caption Jos Brech is seen here in police handout photos 
 
 Nicky's mother Berthie told Dutch TV on Sunday night said the family did not dare believe that the arrest would come so soon after the police appeal on 22 August. "We hope there'll be quick answers now to all the questions we have," she said. 
 
 Spanish police were tipped off by a Dutchman who said he had seen him in the village of Castelltercol, north of Barcelona, and spoken to him in July. 
 
 "He'd been living in a tent in the woods, close to a house that several people have visited for years. It's a sort of commune where I had lived for ages too," the man told the Telegraaf newspaper. 
 
 A leading defence lawyer said he was prepared to take on the case on Jos Brech's behalf as there were traces of DNA from other people on the body as well.
– A double murder in the world of volleyball is dominating the news in Spain and the Netherlands, and Spanish police say the whole affair could be business-related. Dutch volleyball star Ingrid Visser and her partner, Lodewijk Severein, went missing shortly after arriving in Murcia, Spain, earlier this month. On Sunday their bodies were found in a lemon grove, buried in a shallow grave. Three suspects were arrested the previous day; among them: Juan Cuenca Lorente, the 36-year-old former director of Murcia's volleyball club, which Visser, a popular Dutch player, played for from 2009 to 2011. Police say Lorente and the couple had some sort of business disagreement, though no specifics were released. As for what Visser, 35, and Severein, 57, were doing in Spain, the BBC reports that they were supposed to see a doctor there on May 14 but never showed up for the appointment; the Telegraph and Dutch News report that they were to undergo fertility treatment.