A couple had broken up with a great deal of animosity: the man had a court order against him from approaching her… And she had one, too, so neither could approach the other.
However, during summer 2025 the Policía Nacional in Motril came across them in each other’s company in a parked car on one of Motril’s streets,
They were charged with breaking their court orders. They came before a judge and both were rapidly sentenced to nine months and one day imprisonment in March this year. The reason that they received a prison sentence was because it was not the first time that they had been found in each other’s company.
The man, however, decided to take his case to the appeal court in Granada, but it was rejected and the original sentence confirmed. But before we move on, it is worth mentioning the reasoning that he used to make an appeal: he had arranged to meet up with her because he was hungry and had nothing to eat. In other words, it was a necessity, not a whim.
“The day he was caught inside a vehicle together with his former romantic partner (a factual matter admitted by the appellant) was because he had gone several days without ingesting food, ‘the other person having merely come to provide him with food,”‘ “reads the appeals court sentence.
In response the magistrates concluded, “It is evident that the claim of the aforementioned state of necessity is characterised by a total lack of evidentiary support, relied upon exclusively in the party’s own pleadings, as no evidence has been submitted regarding their financial capacity or economic resources. Furthermore, the necessity of obtaining food is satisfied through a substantial welfare network of soup kitchens in any town of a certain size, such as Motril.”
The above roughly translates into “Pull the other one.”
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Keywords: Breaking A Court Order, Mutual, Driven By Hunger, Appeals Court, Thrown Out
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