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British chef awaiting Costa del Sol murder trial found dead in prison cell
JUAN CANO / FERNANDO TORRES
...accused of stabbing the victim with a broken beer bottle, who reproached him for allegedly pestering his wife in a Fuengirola pub in June 2019. Prison officers found Gardiner lying motionless on his bed at the Alhaurín de la Torre prison on the morning ... natural death" and an autopsy report points to suicide. Gardiner, who worked as a chef in a Costa resort and lived in Mijas with his wife and children, had been held in the Malaga prison since June 2019 when he was arrested for the murder of John Pender,