A British man who allegedly tried to drown his daughter-in-law in a holiday swimming pool in Florida has been charged by police.

Mark Raymond Gibbon, 62, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, allegedly held the 33-year-old underwater repeatedly after they argued about his grandchildren.

He allegedly only stopped when a pair of sisters staying next door called the Polk County sheriff's department.

The victim's nine-year-old daughter also allegedly jumped into the pool to stop Gibbon from drowning her mother.

The family were staying at a rental home in the Solterra Resort of Davenport, Florida, when the incident occurred on Sunday, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.

Officers responded to reports of a disturbance in a pool at around 5.20pm local time.

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