A 19-year-old British tourist was killed and four others were injured in a brawl with a taxi driver and another man in the early hours of Wednesday outside a club in the tourist region of Laganas on Zakynthos island.
The deceased man was fatally stabbed when he and four friends of his squabbled with a taxi driver and a friend, also a taxi driver, outside the club at about 4:30 a.m.
The perpetrator was arrested by police three hours later at his home, and has confessed to the stabbing. The second taxi driver was also arrested for complicity.
The perpetrator said he threw the knife into the sea after the incident, indicating the spot to police, who have recovered the weapon.
According to first reports, the cab driver told police the tourists had been eating at a fast food restaurant across the street from the club and were harassing them with lasers, and he and his friend got initially involved in a heated verbal argument with them before he took the knife from his taxi.
The dead man was tentatively identified as Robert James Sevvage, from Basingstoke, south central England.
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