NEWS IN BRIEF Beached ALICANTE police formed a human chain last Saturday to flush out 200 young people who were on Postiguet beach at 4.00am.
Pizza Plot TWO Spaniards were arrested in Orihuela after lying in wait to steal pizzas and money from delivery men arriving at empty properties.
Fakery 800 counterfeit items were seized by Torrevieja police in a raid on traders operating in the city´s Paseo Martimo Juan Aparicio area.
Rescued AN 83-year-old woman was saved after she displayed drowning symptoms in the sea at Guardamar´s Centro beach.
Wobbly End A DRUNK man fell six metres down onto the rocks of Torrevieja’s Los Locos beach and had to be stretchered out by firefighters.
DISGRACE! POLICE have busted a Murcia drugs gang that had held captive 10 victims of sexual exploitation. According to cops the women were incarcerated with chains, whips and other paraphernalia. Eight men were arrested as alleged perpetrators of crimes related to prostitution, drug trafficking and illegal immigration. Investigations into human trafficking earlier this month revealed a property in Aljucer, where all manner of exploitation was carried out. Both sex and drugs were offered at the premises and in the surrounding areas, with tariffs posted on the walls. Cocaine, hashish and marihuana was found in pre-prepared packets ready for sale. Those arrested are believed to be the owner of the premises, his wife, two female ‘managers’ and four collaborators.
Art attack A STUDENT from Murcia has been jailed for vandalising a Picasso painting at London’s Tate Modern gallery. The San Javier-based ‘anarchist’ Shakeel Massey, 20, was handed an 18-month sentence at a London court for causing €400,000 worth of damage. He attacked Picasso’s Bust of a Woman after wrapping his hand in a scarf to break the protective glass before tearing into the canvas. Massey said it was a ‘performance’ and had used social media to plan the attack for three years.
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Love triangle ‘killer’ freed AN IRISHMAN accused of beating a friend to death in a fit of jealous rage has been freed from jail after just 18 months in custody. Wayne Walsh, 32, from Kilkennny, was released by a Torrevieja judge after posting bail worth €3,000. His freedom is conditional on having to report daily to the court. He was jailed in January 2019 after the body of fellow-Irishman Carl Carr, 38, was discovered in a
GIRL FRIEND: Mily Leonard
Body of Carl Carr found in shallow grave after lovers’ dispute By Alex Trelinski
shallow grave off the AP-7 highway in the Rojales area. Carr died in an apartment in Torrevieja in September 2018 when housemate Walsh confronted him over a relationship he was having with his ‘on-off girlfriend’, British model Mily Leonard. The Guardia Civil claimed
DEAD: Carl Carr
that Walsh used a knuckleduster to batter Carr to death. Carr was a convicted drug dealer, having served a jail-term sentence for drug offences in Ireland before relocating to the Costa Blanca. Girlfriend Leonard was arrested alongside Natalie Edwards, a local bar manager, in 2018 for concealing the crime and spent two months in jail before being released on bail for €22,000. Party girl Leonard had boasted of her luxury lifestyle by posing in skimpy shorts on the bonnet of a Hummer. In 2008, Irish police pounced after mounting a surveillance operation at St Joseph’s Hospital in Dublin and seeing maintenance man Declan Broderick hand over drugs to Carr. Carr and Broderick were both sentenced to eight years in prison.
Just joking guv! A MADRID man has had hate crime charges dropped by a judge after he appeared in a video claiming to be spreading COVID-19 along the Costa Blanca. In a high-profile CORONAVIRUS SPEC IAL case, the 61-year-old had been YOU SICK PUPP arrested Y! in April over his comments w h i c h caused local outrage. The footage showed him saying that he had come to Torrevieja to 'f*** over' the residents by spreading the coronavirus (see story above). He claimed to have gone to a supermarket close to the main bus station, along with thousands of others from Madrid, in order to clear the shelves of food so locals would 'die of hunger'. However, he insisted it was 'purely a joke' and a Torrevieja judge has shared his view that he merely sent the video to a friend for fun. Initially a magistrate had bailed him on condition he not set foot in Torrevieja where he now lived - and confiscated his passport. But a prosecutor’s report showed there was no evidence of a hate crime and he has been released. www.theoli vepress.es
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