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Accountant Timothy Entwistle, 57, who lived in an 11-bedroom mansion near Yeovil, Somerset, and educated his three children at public school despite being a declared bankrupt, masterminded the finances.Accountant: Timothy Entwistle lived a luxury lifestyle in a £1m mansionFraudsters:...
A long-time Spanish resident known as the "Prince of Marbella" for his opulent lifestyle, Al Kassar is charged in a federal indictment unsealed last June with conspiring to kill Americans, supply terrorists, obtain anti-aircraft missiles and launder money, the police said.US officials...
34 cars and four motorbikes were burned out in a fire in the early hours of Friday which took place outside the Tio Charles urbanisation in Benalmádena.The blaze started just after 4,10 am and was declared to be extinguished just after three hours later. Firemen from Benalmádena and Fuengirola attended the scene. Despite the ferocity of the blaze there was no need for any people to be evacuated from the ar...
The court in Sevilla has sentenced a man to four year in prison after more than 3,150 child porn images were found on his computer together with 157 videos, all of which he shared with other users of the internet.EFE news agency reports that 32 year old C.T.R. was discovered when he took his lap-top computer in for repair and the shop informed the police on finding the contents. Police say that there were images of children, some aged under 13, taking...
Fifty-five Nigerians were arrested in armed swoops by Spanish fraudbusters on more than 60 homes and businesses. The suspects were rounded up by cops backed by riot police in Malaga, on Spain’s Costa del Sol. The gang are believed to have ripped off 1,500 victims worldwide – many of them British – for £21.6million.Individual losses average £14,000, but range from £640 to a massive £720,000. The crackdown followed the jailing of a Nigerian last Friday...
British family’s £4.4 million Spanish home has been wrecked by 400 teenagers after their 16-year-old daughter used social networking sites to invite people from across the Costa del Sol to drink a “lot of alcohol”. After invites were posted on the Bebo and Facebook sites, rumours...
4 men have pleaded guilty and been sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for a total of 17 sexual offences on three teenaged boys from Tyneside.The court heard how Derek Marshall, 52, and his son, Graeme Marshall, 24, befriended the boys, aged between 13 and 16 years. The victims were then introduced to a 58-year-old man called Melling, from Middlesbrough, who had been living in Spain, and Paul Anthony Bures, 53, from Kent, both of whom were jailed...
A judge of the town of Ferrol declared a patient, who grows and uses cannabis to treat pain and spasticity due to spinal cord injury, not guilty, because he "did not commit a crime" against public health. In Spain it is legal to grow cannabis for personal use in his own property, even for recreational use. However, 32- year old Juan Manuel Rodríguez did not cultivate cannabis at his home, but in a nursing home of the national health service and he...
Portugal's Judicial Police said Thursday it had seized 121.8 kg of cocaine and arrested four people for allegedly trying to smuggle the drug into Spain. The detainees, three men and one woman, "aimed to acquire and secure the transport of cocaine from Portugal to Spain with the intention of distributing it there," the police said. "Some of those arrested had already been linked to narcotics trafficking by either Portuguese or foreign authorities,"...
