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olive press Vol. 1 Issue 7
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December 10th - 22nd 2015
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FIND HIM! AWOL ‘wheeler dealer’ boyfriend of missing Lisa Brown was jailed over nightclub knife fight in Gibraltar THIS is the first photo of the AWOL boyfriend of missing mother Lisa Brown. Tattooed Brit Simon Corner, 33, is seen luxuriating at La Linea’s Alcaidesa port, where he kept a yacht this summer. Three weeks ago he disappeared from Spain, leaving his boat, Rosa, in drydock at Sotogrande port while police search for him. It is believed he has fled to Thailand, after one source close to the investigation told the Olive Press he had used a credit card there. Corner has a violent history, it can be revealed, and was jailed for three months last year after pulling out a knife during a fight in Gibraltar’s Dusk nightclub. He was later convicted of common assault, death threats and disorderly conduct while being held at a police station, but was only fined. Scottish mother-of-one Brown, 32, who disappeared on November 6, was a regular visitor to Corner’s yacht over the summer, the Olive Press revealed last month. According to one source at the marina, she would turn up and sunbathe after work, and was a ‘lovely, amicable woman’. She was last seen on November 6 though, and was reported missing by her ex Tony Tomillero after failing to pick up their eight-year-old son Marco from school three days later. She had been due to start a new job in Gibraltar at Bet365 before she vanished, having left betting firm
EXCLUSIVE By Tom Powell
Big three: We will take back the Rock MAKING Gibraltar Spanish is a manifesto pledge for three of Spain’s four main parties ahead of this month’s election. Both the PP and the PSOE have committed themselves to seizing control of the Rock, while Ciudadanos have also set out plans for ‘decolonisation’.
Ladbrokes in August. A search of the surrounding area, including helicopters, sniffer dogs and a diver operation in nearby Rio Guadiaro, found nothing. The Guardia Civil has confirmed it is still being treated as a missing persons’ inquiry. Meanwhile, Sotogrande port security guards and dry dock workers have been instructed to call police should they spot Corner. His 40-foot vessel is still there in dry dock after it was discovered tied to a mooring in the port.
Cooperate
Only anti-corruption party Podemos vowed to cooperate with Gibraltar, confirming this during a speech in La Linea. December 20’s general election looks set to be tight, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s PP currently just out in front. However, all polls suggest political pacts will have to be made in the aftermath of the election in order to reach a majority government.
Suspicious
A source at Alcaidesa marina described the Liverpool man as a ‘wheeler dealer’, who had docked a number of different boats there over the last year. Corner, who looked ‘older than his age’, made his money buying and selling boats and had previously had a local Spanish girlfriend. “He was often in and out of the port and you have to be suspicious about exactly what he was up to,” he added. He left without paying his bills. The Royal Gibraltar Police have been working with the Guardia Civil in the search and confirmed they are looking for ‘a British man who had been docked at Alcaidesa marina and working in Gibraltar’.
LEADERS: Election vow
Election fever sweeps Spain. Pages 6-7 VIOLENT THUG: Lisa Brown’s boyfriend Simon Corner, (top) Lisa
What does the world’s strongest boy order at McDonalds? The Olive Press meets Gibraltar’s world record holder Leon De Roeck Fear is not an option. P16-17
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