Polk County Sheriff’s Office
A tourist visiting Florida from England is facing charges including attempted murder for allegedly trying to drown his daughter-in-law in front of his granddaughter, authorities said.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded the Solterra Resort on Pine Tree Trail in Davenport, southwest of Orlando, at around 5:19 p.m. on Sunday for a report of a “disturbance” in a backyard swimming pool. The victim and witnesses told deputies that 62-year old Mark Raymond Gibbon of Beaconsfield, England, tried to drown his 33-year-old daughter-in-law after an argument.
According to the victim, she and Gibbon were in the backyard swimming pool of the vacation rental home when they began arguing about his grandchildren. Gibbon then allegedly pushed her head underwater, holding it there, multiple times…