ISSUE NO. 1688
9 - 15 November 2017
Indian summer THE mercury is set to rise to 25°C across the Costa del Sol this weekend. The blast of heat will be most intense on Sunday, as temperatures soar 5 degrees above the normal seasonal high for November. It comes after an abnormally dry autumn so far, although the chilly weather is expected to return by Tuesday.
Murder charge A 64-YEAR-OLD ex-Legionnaire has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a police officer on the Costa del Sol. The verdict comes after a short trial in which it emerged that the accused, named as Julian YL, suffers from bipolar syndrome. The incident occurred in Torremolinos, after Julian went to the home of the victim, a retired National Police Inspector, before a scuffle broke out on the doorstep. He then produced a 25-centimetre machete and stabbed the other man 16 times in full view of a neighbour who he instructed to “call the police,” before sitting down next to the dead body.
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Did he know? Investigators demand fresh probe By Kat Ashton Prosecutors have demanded that a case which saw a pair of Colombian trespassers shot dead when they broke into an Alhaurin de la Torre farm be reopened. Just a year after Lucia Garrido was murdered in the pool of Finca Los Naranjos where she lived with her daughter, her ex-partner Manuel Alonso killed two men on the same plot of land. Alonso, who moved onto the farm after Lucia’s death, allegedly gunned the intruders down after they jumped a perimeter fence armed with weapons. The case was initially dismissed as he claimed that he acted in self-defence, but was reopened several years later when an alleged link to drug trafficking emerged. Police concluded that the Colombians had come to the farm with five or six others to retrieve a large amount of cocaine that was stashed there, which the
MYSTERY GOES ON: Lucia Garrido, left, and Manuel Alonso. defendant later disposed of. Officers claimed that the accused was aware of a potential attack on the property and placed himself in the best position to shoot them, before moving the drugs to another location. But the case was dismissed for a second time due to a lack of evidence. Detectives have now insisted on a new probe since he could not have acted in self-defence if he knew they were coming.
Investigators have revealed that the weapons had been strategically placed inside the farmhouse, as if the man was anticipating a raid. The accused is also said to have revealed there had been another attempted break-in at the property two days earlier, but failed to report it at the time. A police official said that the circumstances surrounding the death of Lucia Garrido a few months earlier also remain suspicious.