ISSUE NO. 1686
26 Oct - 1 Nov 2017
MALLORCA
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
Flightmare! A BRITISH couple were stranded for three days and forced to take a major detour after their Ryanair flight was cancelled due to French air strikes. Samantha Breen, 30, and her partner Alexander Rutherford, 43, were due to fly back to the UK on October 10 after a fiveday break in Mallorca but didn’t make it until October 14. After a six hour wait at Palma de Mallorca Airport, the couple were told that their flight had been cancelled and the next available seats were on October 13, but they had to fly
Photo credit Samantha Breen/Facebook
Brit pair suffer three-day ordeal
STRANDED: The family (inset) were left without money. to Madrid and Lanzarote first. The airline put the couple up in a hotel for three days, where they were stranded without food and with only €11 be-
tween them. Their family sent them €100 to help them out. On October 13, the couple, from Thornaby-on-Tees, flew to Madrid and then on to Lan-
‘Number 2’ prefers prison THE right-hand man of accused Palma mobster and club
owner Tolo Cursach has said he prefers to stay in prison for the
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time being. Bartolome Sbert, who along with his boss has been jailed since March, declined a €500,000 offer of bail, saying that jail “is the safest place for him.”
zarote, where they arrived just before midnight. Ms Breen told UK media that they were forced to sleep on a wooden bench outside the airport as there was no one at the Ryanair desk to assist them when they arrived. They then had to wait at the airport for eight hours until their flight back to Newcastle. A Ryanair spokesperson claimed that the flight had been cancelled 16 hours before the scheduled departure and that customers were sent emails offering a full refund or free transfer.
Rapist had escaped POLICE admitted that a young Frenchman accused of drugging and raping a Palma woman had escaped from a detention centre. The 20-year-old suspect is believed to have broken into the woman’s home, raped her twice, then forced sedative pills down her throat. He then tied her up and set fire to the place.
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