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Four held in UK and Spain By Darren James Four more people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a British man. Two of the suspects were picked up in Liverpool and two in Javea in a coordinated international sting. In March 2014, a body wrapped in plastic was found on La Zenia beach in Orihuela Costa and identified as Francis Brennan, a 25-year-old Briton. The dead man had been abducted and bundled into a waiting vehicle by three people
Depth charge detonated
Guardia Civil
ISSUE NO. 1672
COORDINATED: Arrests made in Spain
Divers found the device.
NAVAL artificers have safely blown up what is believed to have been a Second World War anti-submarine depth charge that divers found two miles off Tabarca island. The explosive device was transferred away to a safer area before the controlled detonation. The object was spotted by recreational divers who alerted the Guardia Civil. The following day, agents of the Special Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) made several dives and found it 29 metres down on the sea bed. The GEAS team initially thought it was a butane gas bottle. According to GEDEX, the Guardia Civil’s specialist explosive branch, the device is an MK or Mark model used by the US Army at the end of Second World War to attack enemy submarines.
purporting to be policemen on January 24 of that year. British citizens Paul Scott and Paul Graham Monk were later arrested over their alleged involvement in the plot, with investigators suspecting it to be related to a drug debt. Monk was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison in the UK for smuggling cocaine worth â‚Ź31 million into the country.
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