DAVENPORT, FL – A vacationer from the United Kingdom is facing serious charges after allegedly attempting to drown his daughter-in-law during an argument at a resort rental home.
On Sunday, August 3, 2025, around 5:19 p.m., Polk County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance at a vacation home in the Solterra Resort on Pine Tree Trail in Davenport. Deputies were told the incident began with an argument in the backyard swimming pool.
According to the victim and witnesses, 62-year-old Mark Raymond Gibbon, of Beaconsfield, England, became enraged during a dispute about his grandchildren and repeatedly pushed and held his 33-year-old daughter-in-law’s head under water, preventing her from breathing…