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LONE WOLF TARGETED A TOWN hall has authorised the hunting of a lone wolf, which they believe is responsible for attacks on its farmers’ livestock. Alava has sanctioned the hunting drive in the Gibijo mountains after a petition was launched by farmers. In total, the mammal has been blamed for the deaths of 131 animals, mostly sheep, since May last year. Its stalking can only be conducted by authorised hunters. There are estimated to be 240 packs in the north of Spain. It is legal to hunt wolves in Galicia, Cantabria and Castilla y León.
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TOURISTS are being warned to watch out for an alarming spate of drink spikings in Spain. The American embassy in Madrid has put out a security alert after a rise in sex assaults against its citizens. It is now urging Americans to take precautions against predators by watching out for spiked drinks and avoiding being alone. In a message on its website, it warned: “The Spanish Ministry of Interior reports a steady increase in the number of sexual assaults over the past five years. “This includes a rise in sexual assault against young US visitors and students throughout Spain. “US victims of sexual assault can find it very difficult to
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US embassy issues sex attack warning telling public to ‘watch out’ for drinks spiking navigate the local criminal justice system, which differs significantly from the US system. “We urge US citizens to take precautions against sexual assault during their stay in
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have BIG developments been made by tech experts into preventing drink-spiking. I A UK-based company has jump out of the window, small developed ‘Spikey’, a would have.” tube and stopper Despite numerous identity plastic glass most E into who fits EXCLUSIV expat that parades, the confessions A NORWEGIAN d a pre- bottles to prevent people By Imogen Calderwoo of all three men and was drugged and brutally in the is deliminary hearing dropping substances raped on a night out story felt in March in front drink. termined to have her to her side to a taxi rank, and I them that of a Benidorm Clubs can even order told and bring justice safe because I was sure there is in bulk to hand out to their judge, attackers. roccan drugpatrons. lord as he was the taxi driver would realise ascase was court no she wrong. still after A year EXCLUSIVEsomething was fancy a bottled don’t shooting sitting in the cafe, If you pending. after being drugged “But then one of the three saulted is here to By Jacqueline Fanchini drink then “Everything in an Albir bar, in Alicante guys walked to the driver’s him injust the back of pd.id the head by David takes so long. 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Expat drug lord shot in the head in exclusive Costa del Sol shopping centre, just yards from the home of former England manager Fabio Capello and close to Zagaleta
FLASHBACK: Our spiking Gang-dalucia - as police campaign and back issues crack down on biker gangs and investigations’ to avoid gang culture by Spanish authorities as their popularity developing across the country. grows. It added that these gangs have a long traThe police are investigating a number of ledition of criminal activity, including drug gitimate businesses in Andalucia that have dealing and trafficking, extortion, money been set up in the hotel and restaurant seclaundering and violent crimes. tor, that are being run merely to hide illegal Andalucia has become a hot-bed for biker activity. gangs with the largest chapter of the SatThey are also looking at the motoring and udarah MC gang - set up in Holland - now real estate sector. located in Southern Spain. "These businesses are run of exclusively by Biker gangs like the Hell’s Angels – with our helping yearsnetworks After gang members and10 conceal whose strong followings in Germany and the Spain, in buy safely purpose is tocustom hide the of the illegal ersprofits Netherlands – are growing in Spain. Costa activities committedopene in their countries of new There are currently 80 biker-related d our origin,” said we’ve a spokesman for the Interior criminal investigations under way in Eueven it del Sol office to make Ministry. rope ty! including murder and attempted proper dream your activity The police will ‘increase preventive to find murder. easier
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his real job. Police and an ambulance were soon on the scene but medics were unable to save the victim. The gunmen remain at large although the motive is believed to have been a settling of scores, related to the theft of a cocaine shipment sent to Belgium. Despite his high profile, authorities have systematically been unable to produce sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction.
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a colourful way for clubbers to check if their drinks have been spiked. Under the name Undercover Colours, the North Carolina State University entrepreneurs have developed a nail varnish that changes colour when it touches daterape drugs. The idea is that the wearer can stir their drink, and the colour-change will alert them to the presence of drugs like Rohypnol and GHB.
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The sisters aged 18, 20 and 23 flew back to Ohio and are being kept informed of police inquiries. The Olive Press launched a campaign against drink spiking in 2014.
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THE British Consulate has joined the offensive against reach your sexual attacks in Spanish holdestination. iday hotspots. Vol. 8 Issue 193 www.theolivepress.es August 7 - August 20 2014 Will Middleton, the British www.hifx.co.uk consular director for Spain, instigated a series of dramatic posters warning British tourists how to stay safe on nights out. ‘Don’t walk home alone or with someone you don’t trust, it could cost you your life’, read one poster. ‘Keep an eye on your drink: It only takes a second for your night out to book, Linkedin and by word turn into a nightmare’, said of mouth, operates out of his another. own home as well as visiting However, Ibiza’s tourist inclients’ both on the coast and Hill, 52, was also struck off in dustry has shockingly siExclusive regularly back in England. a hearing of the Nursing and lenced Middleton’s attempt The UK Nursing Council’s By Tom P0well Midwifery Council in August to crackdown on drink-spikhearing report on Hill, who ing and sexual assaults by A MENTAL health nurse who 2011, banning him from pracqualified as a mental health Recently retired Premiership banning the posters. was sacked and jailed for tor- tising as a nurse in England. nurse in 1983, states: “There footballer-turned-MarbellaThe Consulate’s warnings turing an 85-year-old demen- But he did not attend the is no evidence before the businessman David Bentley come just weeks after the tia patient is giving botox in- hearing, with UK newspapers panel of either insight or reon living in Spain reporting he was working at a Olive Press launched its own jections on the Costa del Sol. morse.” campaign against drink-spikSee Page 21 David Hill was imprisoned botox clinic in Spain. A spokeswoman for the ing – called Smash the Spikfor six months in 2010, after Fast forward four years and Council, Ann Brown, told the pleading guilty to ‘degrading the Olive Press has traced Olive Press that by moving to and humiliating’ wheelchair- Hill, now living with his wife Spain, Hill now comes under bound Dorothy Tunstall at a in a luxury villa in the Atalaya ‘the jurisdiction of the equivUK care home in St Helens, development, Estepona, and alent Spanish authority’. working as a self-employed Liverpool. Hill: Jailed for abuse Judge Robert Warnock told ‘aesthetic practitioner’. No remorse Hill at Liverpool Crown But when client Natalie Rose Court: “You grossly abused discovered his unsavoury what he had done in St Hel- “He cannot practise as a nurse your patient’s trust, appar- past via a Google search, she ens I was amazed, shocked in England but according to a February 2014 report, it apently for your own perverse immediately raised the alarm and upset. “My mum had dementia and pears non-registered people bell. enjoyment. “You force-fed her, you “I’ve known David for three he was so sympathetic with can still administer Botox in flicked food in her face and years, I even introduced him me, but now I am appalled, he the UK,” she confirmed. you put her in a hoist and to people in Coin and helped must have no shame,” added However, the Spanish minisspun her around when you him advertise on Facebook,” Rose, who has lived in Coin try of health confirmed that British expat Rose told the with her family for 11 years. to administer botox in Spain, Retracing seminal 1960s’ knew she was terrified.” Olive Press. “When I saw Hill, who advertises on Face- you must be a qualified doc- Costa del Sol novel ing – following an exclusive tor and registered. investigation into attacks in See Page 22 And the Ocean Clinic in MarSpain’s most popular holiday bella confirmed: “You need destinations. to be a qualified doctor to adThe investigation revealed a minister Botox in Spain, and complete absence of official registered with the Ministry statistics in Spain regardof Health.” ing reports of drink-spiking When contacted by the Olive – from police, hospitals and Press, Hill stated that he is a town halls – despite rumours ‘fully trained and legal aesthat this type of crime is on thetic practitioner’, working the increase. in both Spain and England. Our aims are simple: more “I was told I did not need a statistics, better policing, certificate from the Ministry clearer advice. of Health to administer botox The Olive Press is currently and fillers in Spain,” he said, in communication with the while expressing no remorse British consul, town halls in for his previous actions. A look at the high life in Continues page 2 More than 65,000 people sign petition demanding a stop to Donkey “I went to prison for some- our Sotogrande supplement carousels - see page 11 thing I didn’t do,” he claimed. See Pages 25-31
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It came after an investigation discovered that dozens of people had become victims during nights out on the Costa del Sol. One victim was BBC sports reporter Alan Tait who woke up the next day in a ‘coma-like state’ after being drugged The issue is understood to have worsened over recent years.
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