| Peter Tarsey | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Brentford, England |
| Death Date: | 29 March 2015 (aged 77) |
| Death Place: | Xalo, Spain |
Peter David Tarsey (5 August 1937 – 29 March 2015) was a British diver who competed for Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Commonwealth Games.
Tarsey was born on 5 August 1937 in Brentford, Greater London, England.[1]
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Tarsey competed in the Men's 3 metre springboard, where he finished 16th, and the Men's 10 metre platform, where he finished 14th.
Tarsey competed in two Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal at Cardiff in 1958, in the Men's 3m Springboard event.[2] [3]
Tarsey married Jean Biggs in February 1960. They had two sons, Alexei and Sascha. They lived in Spain for 18 years.
At the time of their deaths the Tarseys were trying to sell their house in order to move near their son Sascha and grandchildren in Majorca.
The couple were found shot dead "in each other's arms" at their villa in Xalo, near Benidorm, Spain, on 29 March 2015, by friends who had come to Sunday dinner. They had been killed three days earlier.[4] [5]
In July 2016 Driss Drizi, 63, a Moroccan immigrant painter, was jailed for 31 years after confessing to the double murder and striking a plea bargain with prosecutors. Drizi was sentenced to 15 years for each murder, an additional year for illegal possession of a weapon, and ordered to pay 150,000 euros to each of the Tarsey's two sons. Drizi shot the couple following an unspecified row with David Tarsey.[6] [7]