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ISSUE NO. 1720
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21 - 27 June 2018
EXCLUSIVE by Matt Ford A BRITISH homeowner has spoken of his outrage after an expatriate neighbour’s ‘illegal zoo’ made his life in Almeria impossible. Former Land Rover project manager David Dibble, 60, bought a house in El Chopo, Arboleas with wife Mandy 15 years ago, and the couple have since spent around six months per year there. But five years ago the British owners of the adjoining property sold to a German man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and it was then that the problems started for the pair from Lichfield, Staffordshire. “It’s horrendous, we can’t sunbathe out back and we can’t hang our washing out at the front due to the putrid smell,” explained David, speaking ex-
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Last resort NO BEAR CARE: The animals clusively with Euro Weekly News. “The noise is terrible, we are often woken in the middle of the night, and the place is infested by rats which run through our garden chased by stray cats attracted by the food.” I have had two heart attacks
ANA JULIA QUESADA, the sole suspect in eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz’s murder case, refused to clarify the events surrounding the Almeria boy’s death when questioned in court. She is being tried for crimes of murder, illegal detention and abuse of moral integrity and the questions she faced aimed to get to the bottom of what happened on the day of Gabriel’s alleged killing. Officers transported Quesada - the case’s only suspect - in a police van from El Acebuche prison where she is being held. She arrived at the Almeria courtroom at 9am but spent just 30 minutes on the
include exotic nose bears. in the past and the stress is causing me to feel very unwell. “He started building pens just after moving in, normally on a Friday afternoon when the local council is shut, and he’s just put up a new 30-square metre one.”
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Suspect’s lips sealed bench. Quesada’s lawyer, Beatriz Gamez, instructed Quesada not to respond to questioning ‘while the secrecy order is still in place’ in order to protect her right to defense. Gabriel’s parents’ lawyer, Francisco Torres, told media it did not make ‘any sense’ for the secrecy order to continue in place,
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or to arrange court hearings with witnesses under these conditions. Torres added that the wait times between legal proceedings are an ‘added punishment’ for Gabriel’s parents who have repeatedly requested the cremation of their son which has been put on hold during the case. “The truth is I do not know what we are waiting for,” Torres said. The court hearing follows new evidence emerging from the autopsy, which has been kept under a secrecy order since March but could - at least partially - come to light later this week.
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Great ball of fire! SCIENTISTS in Almeria have detected a piece of asteroid travelling some 66,000 kilometres per hour over the skies of Andalucia. The team of astronomers based at an observatory in Calar Alton spotted the space rock as it shot through night skies over the weekend. Professor Jose Maria Madiedo, the head of the SMART project which tracks objects from outer space entering the Earth’s atmosphere, confirmed the sighting. Scientists said the phenomenon trailing light, which gave it a ‘fireball’ look, was caused by a fragment of rock splitting from the main object. The asteroid reportedly travelled around 93 kilometres above the Earth’s surface. It passed over Huelva Province in western Andalucia before flying over the Atlantic Ocean where it flew around 43 kilometres above the sea. Astronomers in Granada and Toledo also sighted the space debris.