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NEWS EXTRA
Safety screen PALMA Municipal Transport System (EMT) has finished installing safety screens to protect bus drivers as the number of attacks on drivers had been increasing.
Window case LOCAL POLICE in Manacor are asking for help to solve the case of who is responsible for a spate of carwindow breakages. At least six cars have had their windows broken.
Deaf safety SANTA MARGALIDA Council has come up with a novel idea for the safety of the deaf; it is making sure all life saving personnel know enough sign language to make rescuing a deaf person easier.
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Father and son to stand trial for murder of woman A MAN, 80, and his son, 19, are facing a total of 43 years in prison for killing the youth’s mother in their home in Palma in 2013. In the early hours of the morning of February 28, 2013, following an argument, the young man allegedly grabbed his
mother, 60, pushed her to the floor and repeatedly beat her around the head with a three-kilo dumbbell before strangling her with an electric cable, while his father watched him. According to her secret diary, found by the National Police, she had been
abused by her husband and son since the boy was 13 and feared for her life. The youth, who already had a criminal record, was remanded in prison, and confessed to the crime late last year, claiming his father had not been involved. However, the older man
Balearic Islands short on nurses THERE are not enough nurses on the Balearic Islands. According to the CIS (centre for social investigations) healthcare is the fifth highest on the list of what worries the citizens of the Balearic Islands. The Spanish average is of 536 nurses for every 100,000 people, but the Balearic Island average is 508 for every 100,000, while the EU average is 808.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES: Provided by nurses.
is charged with habitually abusing and humiliating his wife and allowing their son to do the same. On one occasion, when the boy threw a can of condensed milk at her head, his father justified his actions and didn’t accompany her to the health centre, where
she was given stitches. He refused her money for clothes, despite the family being well off, banned her from seeing relatives and beat her when they argued. The youth had been involved with a girl under 18 who he left when she got pregnant, which is reportedly one of the reasons his mother argued with him just before her death. He had just come back from Madrid, where his girlfriend lived, and had been living in a hotel. He wanted to go live with her, but his mother disagreed. After killing her, he reportedly searched the internet for information on how to clean up a crime scene and the emergency services were not called for several hours. Father and son initially said her death had been an accident.