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School caretaker arrested for dealing to students NATIONAL POLICE in Malaga have detained the caretaker of a school for selling drugs to the
students. His wife and son have also been detained for the same alleged activity.
The detainee used his house, which is within the school boundaries, for dealing, sometimes to minors. Police officers have confiscated 40 hashish pellets with a total weight of 416 grams, a bag full of marihuana and €2,256 in cash. This investigation comes under a larger, more general operation in Malaga to try to stamp out all the small to medium drug dealers in the area. Inquiries revealed that the caretaker was selling on school premises as the students would go to his house, which was on school property, to buy the drugs as well as the bar down the road which he sometimes used for dealing; some
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Council savings MALAGA Council has saved €100,000 on telephony and internet services in the last year thanks to a new deal struck with one of the bigger providers.
Classroom ambassadors THE British School in Benalmadena has been declared an ambassador for the Save the Children organisation; this is a non-government organisation dedicated to helping children in poverty around the world.
DRUGS CONFISCATED: From school premises. of his customers were underage. After confiscating drugs from several people who had bought them from the caretaker,
thus establishing the point of sale, the police proceeded with his detention and that of his wife and 25-year-old son.
Frontal crash A FRONTAL collision in Benalmadena has left four people injured. One of them is a pregnant woman. The cause of the crash is as yet unknown.
Georgian killer gets reduction in sentence for being drunk A GEORGIAN man who killed his Russian lover after a drinking binge has been found guilty. The man was accused of stabbing and beating to death a Russian citizen, 55, in Fuengirola and he has been found guilty of murder by a unanimous jury verdict. The case lasted only three days and the prosecution lowered the amount of prison time asked for from 17 years for homicide to eight years for manslaughter with extenuating circumstances, which were qualified as extreme drunkenness at the time of the crime. In March of 2013, both the victim and the killer were in the victim’s house drinking and arguing when the killer started beating the victim about
the head and then smashed her head into the floor “with great violence”. After this the killer then got hold of a knife, seven centimetres long and two wide, with which he stabbed the victim up to five times in the chest, one of which severed her aorta and produced resulted in almost instant death. In the case, the Georgian man, who also has Portuguese nationality, admitted to the facts as presented by the prosecution but added that he had drunk a lot that day and was not used to drinking alcohol. His defence team presented this as extenuating circumstances and the prosecution accepted this argument and reduced the sentence they were asking for.