The Guardia Civil in Padul have arrested a 50-year-old widow, accused of carrying out a theft in a house from which she had been evicted. Her 24-year-old daughter has also been charged.

The actual eviction was widely covered by provincial and regional press and TV, even figuring on a national level, too.

It appears that after the eviction was carried out at number 13 of Calle de la Virgen de las nieves, the two women moved back in again, but as squatters. When the owner of the house turned up to inspect the house, he found that his keys didn’t work the lock (they had changed the lock) and that he could hear people inside, and after asking neighbours about who was in the house, discovered that it was the same women that had been evicted from their on the 4th of October. At this point he decided to report the situation to the magistrate.

The women were ordered to hand over the keys to magistrate, which they did. The owner, then armed with the keys, went to inspect the house, only to find that it had been virtually emptied of furniture and other objects. Not impressed, he made a police report at the Guardia Civil post.

The police found out where the widow was living, went around to arrest her and reportedly found most of the missing items from the first house.

(News: Padul, Granada, Andalucia)