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ISSUE NO. 1745
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AN elderly woman has been injured following a house fire in Rincon de la Victoria. The 95-year-old was taken to hospital after inhaling smoke caused by a fire which broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning on Calle Trebol. Health workers took the woman to the Malaga Regional Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after the blaze was reported at around 1.30am. It has not yet been announced what caused the fire.
THE SCHOOL: Where the convicted teacher worked in Torre del Mar.
Abusive teacher jailed By Sally Underwood A TEACHER who abused five girls at a school in Torre del Mar has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The man must also pay €10,000 in compensation to each of his victims. The convicted was found guilty of five counts of sexual abuse against children over a ‘long time,’ until his arrest in January 2017. During his trial,
the defendant admitted taking advantage of his role at the Custodio Puga school, where he had been employed since 2012, to sexually abuse five girls aged 10 and 11. Prosecutors said the man committed his crimes in full view of the rest of the class and would sit the children on his lap or on a chair next to him, touching them on or under their clothes while pretending to tickle them or explain some-
A WORKER has died after falling from the third floor of a building in Torre del Mar. The m a n , a g e d 3 4 , w a s k illed at around 8am yesterday morning as he loaded a forklift with materials and fell from the building. The incident took place on Paseo
thing. A court found the teacher also abused the girls, ‘in a disguised way,’ while the class watched films. The man first came to police attention following an anonymous call about his behaviour. Officers arrested the suspect last January and he was charged on suspicion of sexual abuse of children. Two days later the teacher had a, ‘crisis of conscience,’ and handed himself in, confessing his crimes to
Workplace death Maritimo Poniente, according to police sources, who say they are investigating the exact cause of the appar-
Smoke damage
police and telling them he needed treatment. A judge ordered his immediate imprisonment pending trial and the man has now been sentenced to five years and one day in jail for each victim. He has also been banned from teaching or taking on any profession involving contact with children for five years after his release, as well as contacting or coming within 500 metres of his victims for 10 years.
ent accident. Workers from the National Police, Local Police, Consortium of Firefighters and health services attended the scene after receiving a call from a witness. The man was declared dead at the scene.
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