31 Oct - 6 Nov 2019
IN a statement given to the judge in charge of the case, Sergio Ruiz has emphatically denied his involvement in the murder of Dana Leonte. Sergio has been in police custody since September 28 after bone remains were found that belonged to the Romanian Dana. Evidence was also found at the home they shared together and phone records of Serg i o ’s s h o w i n c o n s t a n cies in his alibi. In the latest questioning from the prosecution, Sergio has been accused of hacking Dana’s phone after the incident to cover up the crime. “It’s a total lie,” Sergio defended, “Dana always had really long passwords that I had no idea how to access.” During the interview, the prosecuting officer also unearthed evidence that on the day of Dana’s disappearance, Sergio said that he was in Velez-Malaga, however phone records analysed by the police show that he was in Arenas, near the scene of the crime. Sergio responded by simply saying, “Well, I don’t know, I don’t understand.”
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TRIAL DATE FOR SERRANO
THE trial against David Serrano, the owner of the well that claimed the life of t w o - y e a r- o l d Julen, has been set for January 21, 2020. The trial comes just days after the anniversary of the tragic events in the Axarquian town of Totalan which captured the world’s hearts. The owner of the farm, David Serrano will sit before the judge facing three years in prison for the crime of reckless homicide through negligence. Already facing mammoth fines which have led Serrano to declare voluntary bank-
TRIAL SET: A date has been set for the trial against David Serrano.
ruptcy, the family of Julen are pushing for the sentence to be extended by six months as they say that the circumstances surrounding the accident show ‘extreme negligence.’ The defence team of Serrano are asking for the sentence to be acquitted as they suggest that David warned the family on numerous occasions of the presence of the well and that he did not realise that the well was wide enough to fall into. The prosecution team argues that, ‘Serrano was the only one who knew about the well and with the lack of sufficient protection, he endangered lives.’
IT’S A SELL-OUT
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MURDER DENIED
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ISSUE NO. 1791
The first batch of 15,000 tickets for next year’s Weekend Beach Festival sold out in a matter of hours. THE tickets for the three-day musical event were released on Sunday at 5pm, and within 23 minutes the first lot of 10,000 tickets had sold at an introductory price of €33 to €38. The following hour, the third instalment of tickets was sold at a special price of €42, meaning a total of 15,000 tickets were snapped up in apparently record time.
Last year, early allocations were 12,000, meaning this year the festival has already sold 3,000 more than 2018. As of this afternoon there is a fourth batch of tickets available for the price of €45, but these are sure to be snatched up soon. This year the ticket allocation has been increased as well to eight per person instead of four from last year due to increased demand.
SOLD OUT: The first batch of tickets for the Weekend Beach Festival sold out in less than two hours.