Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 6 - 12 October 2016 Issue 1631

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ISSUE NO. 1631

6 - 12 October 2016

COSTA BLANCA SOUTH

YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION

Fugitive held at the airport

An Irishman accused of involvement in a raid on a van carrying cash for a bank after kidnapping a man and his family, has been arrested at Alicante airport. Jeffrey Melvin skipped bail before his 2012 trial following the raid on the Brinks Allied transit van in Dublin. He is alleged to have falsely imprisoned a Brinks Allied worker’s elderly mother and an eight-year-old child before forcing the man to intercept the transit van containing cash. Melvin is said to have got

away with more than €130,000 in the so-called tiger kidnapping raid which took place in 2010. The 34-year-old was detained in Alicante on a European Arrest Warrant ‘accused of committing 11 crimes’ in Ireland, a Spanish National Police spokesman said. These include robbery, illegal detention, possession of firearms and membership of a criminal organisation. A police statement said Melvin was thought to have been living in the Alicante Province using a fake ID.

He had adopted high levels of security to avoid being detected but was eventually arrested sitting in a car outside the airport. Extradition proceedings will take place in Madrid but they could be extended by months if he does not consent to a return to Ireland. Melvin’s case has been described in the media as a ‘tiger kidnapping’ which involves two separate crimes: in the first a person or persons are abducted and then a second crime is committed on behalf of the captor.

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