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33-year sentence A MAN sentenced for kidnapping and murdering Ana Niculai, 25, in Mallorca in July 2010, has accepted 33-and-a-half-years in prison.
Flu down THE Health Department has announced that although cases of flu have been detected earlier this winter, there are fewer, with just 14 in 100,000 people catching it on the island.
Clinic sued A GROUP of 53 women has sued a Clinic in Palma for selling defective PIP silicone breast implants from France, which were removed from the market.
Money claims A RUSSIAN supermodel is demanding that the British police return €100,000 which she claims were taken from her in 2008, and she says were given to her by a Mallorca businessman.
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Expat bar owner tracks down child-sex suspect A MAN, 38, wanted by the FBI on child sex charges and arrested in Magaluf is now back in the United States and facing life imprisonment thanks to a British bar owner. Jeffrey Lane Wenzel, from Montana, is charged with raping his stepdaughter and possessing a large quantity of pornographic material involving children. He had served in the National Guard and claimed to have been destined for Afghanistan, Iraq and Serbia as a US Marine. He was charged in June 2012 with a felony sex assault crime for activity that began when the girl was about 13. In November 2012, he was charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a minor following admissions that he
enticed the girl to send inappropriate photographs of herself via text message. Wenzel pleaded not guilty, was freed on $50,000 bail and faced a January 22, 2013, trial. He failed to appear at his base or in court, and left a note for his wife, whom he married in 2012, saying he was fleeing because he “wouldn’t get a fair
trial” in the United States. He flew to Seattle and from there to Paris, Frankfurt and finally Mallorca, saying he had to “save his life.” Prosecutors added a felony bail jumping charge and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. Federal authorities added another felony charge, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Wenzel’s whereabouts remained unknown until his capture in Mallorca where he found work at a British-owned Magaluf bar last summer. However, shortly afterwards, his new boss began to suspect him, carried out an internet search and found the truth. He alerted the authorities and the man was arrested by Guardia Civil in Calvia in September. He was remanded in prison in Palma and has now been extradited to Helena Prison, in Montana, on bail of $1 million. If he finds a way to pay the amount, he must not leave the country where he will stand trial and wear a tracking device at all times. His trial on the bail-jumping charge is set for May 12; he faces a maximum 10-year sentence, and a possible life sentence on the sex charges if convicted.
Safety operation for the Infanta Cristina THE police have recommended that the Duchess of Palma come down the ramp to Palma Court by car and not on foot when she appears in the Noos corruption trial.
When her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, appeared in the court in Via Alemania, he walked down the ramp. Now the date of the hearing has been set for February 8, the authorities have begun
organising the safety operation surrounding her arrival and time in court. Members of the Security Department from the Royal Household will take part in organising the details.