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British criminal gangs have always been involved in turf wars or acts of revenge but these used to take place in their own backyards. In recent years Nueva Andalucía has become the preserve of Britons with criminal connections. There have been a number of shootings, some deadly,...
Spanish bar owner was ‘kneecapped’ before being robbed by a dangerous Midland fugitive.The Dutch victim was running the drinking hole in the holiday town of La Cala, on the Costa Del Sol, when he was brutally beaten up by three men.One of the thugs – who left the Dutchman needing screws in a shattered kneecap – was said to have been Jonathon Lejman. The 29 year-old, from Stoke-on-Trent, is being hunted by British cops for slashing a man’s face...
convicted killer who carried out a ferocious attack on a Nutfield woman, stabbing her to death, has been jailed for life for her murder.David Baxendale, 40, subjected 38-year-old mother-of-three Sarah Thomas to a “sustained and savage attack” in her flat just hours after meeting her.She suffered multiple injuries, including a fatal knife wound to the neck, in the brutal assault in May last year.Baxendale then fled the country on a ferry and travelled...
POLICE were yesterday trying to find outThe incident was witnessed by several people at Nueva Andalucia, near Puerto Banus.The victim was hit in the leg when a man on a motor scooter fired two shots before driving off.The Brit did not wait for an ambulance but was driven away at speed by another man.A police spokesman said: “The incident bore all the hallmarks of a settling of scores betw...
Armed police swooped on Stephen Devalda, 28, while he was checking out of a hotel with friends in Marbella.Devalda failed to attend his Burnley Crown Court trial for the 2005 robbery of a Royal Mail van at the Asda store, in Corporation Street, Colne.He was accused of holding a gun to a security guard’s head and beating him with a machete while forcing him to hand over £25,000.Detectives now say the net is closing in on his accomplice, Andrew Moran,...
BRITISH man has been injured in yet another shooting incident in Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. It happened on Thursday afternoon at 3,15pm in Calle Califa in the centre of the urbanisation.Several witnesses reported that a person riding a motorbike with his face covered, approached the victim, who was an English speaker and who is thought to be British, and fired two gunshots.The first shot missed because the victim ducked, and ended up in...
The power company had not made a real reading of their meter for three yearsA client looks at her electricity bill - EFE Francisco de la Fuente and his wife Lidia, a pensioner couple from Calpe have received an electricity bill for 6,400 € and have had to ask for a bank loan to pay it.The bill corresponds to a real meter reading and comes given the circumstance that the power company had not made a real reading on the property since 2007, consistently...
British man who caused a fire in the Sierra Nevada Nature Park on September 22 2005, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined 10.6 million €.The Penal Court 4 in Granada also found 65 year old Michael R.H. guilty of the crime of reckless fire starting and handed down another 1,800 € fine.Michelle M.N.S. a French woman who was with the Briton at the time of the incident was found not guilty.The judge explained the ten million € fine corresponds...
Englishman who spent ten years on the run after failing to appear at a Glasgow court on serious drugs charges has been tracked down to Manchester.Andrew Spooner, 41, from Leicester, was one of ten men on a ‘most wanted’ list who were thought to be hiding out in Spain.Spooner, from Leicester, was arrested by officers from the Serious Organized Crime Agency at around 6.30pm on Thursday in Salford, Greater Manchester. He had failed to appear at the...
Tráfico Guardia Civil is reported to only be issuing speeding tickets for drivers who go over 132km/hr. The Union of Civil Guard Officials, UOGC, say that they have only received verbal orders since the change in the maximum speed on Spanish motorways was reduced from 120km/hr to 110, and that speed trap radars are continuing to operate on the parameters which were set before.The UOGC says the only written instructions that they know about on the...
