Those are the damning words that ring out in the Eurovision Song Contest when points are being awarded, and they also seem fitting for the following article.

They say that criminals always return to the scene of the crime. Most of them, however, return after a while when the chances of being caught are slight – not our hero!

But let’s start at the beginning. A driver managed to collide twice in a distance of only 100 metres along a street in the centre of Granada.

Abandoning the car, he had managed to give the police the slip but instead of waiting until the heat had died down, he sauntered straight back to where the same police officers who had given him chase were standing.

They immediately arrested him.

When he ploughed across the gardened area of a roundabout and then slammed into a parked car, he hadn’t been alone in the car; there was a female passenger. She decided to remain in the car when he fled on foot – she hadn’t been driving therefore she had done nothing wrong.

To be fair, he did have an implausible excuse, which was that he had had nothing to do with the incident but had popped by “to see if anything was missing.” They slapped the cuffs on him and locked him up in a police holding cell. He refused to take a breathalyser.

There is something else that he didn’t have going for him – he had been stopped a month ago for drink driving…

All this happened around four o’clock yesterday morning; i.e., in the early hours, in the area of the city known as La Chana.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)