A man from Almuñécar was acquitted of fraud after taking a taxi from Chiclana (Cádiz) to Amuñécar and not paying the 380-euro fare.
Andalusia
Regional news from Andalucia
Tango in Vélez Málaga
by Editor •
The next concerts by the theatre company, Arcos de Buenos Aire take places in Velez Malaga on the 21st of April:
Issues?
by Martin Myall •
A transsexual, who is serving time at the Alhaurín provincial prison (Málaga) for having committed 48 serious or very serious misdemeanors, kicked the crap out of a female prison guard, after coming back from a hormone-treatment session as part of a sex-change process to become a woman.
33, 70 & 91
by Martin Myall •
Strange headline, admittedly, but these three figures are the most startling things about this article: a 70-year-old man stabs a 33-year-old prostitute 91 times – you can rule out an accident.
Man Kills Family to Save Them
by Martin Myall •
A 36-year-old man is facing 50 years in prison, standing accused of having stabbed to death his wife and 5-year-old son.
Police Head Drunk at the Wheel
by Martin Myall •
The Councillor for Citizen Safety; i.e., the municipal police, for the Almería town of Huércal received a 8-month driving ban and a fine calculated at 4 months at six euros a day, after being stopped and found to be over the alcohol limit.
Priest Dies Saving Children
by Martin Myall •
Cádiz-born Father Pedro Manuel Salado died in Ecuador shortly after saving the lives of seven children, who had been swept into the sea by a freak wave, near Quinindé.
Dangerous Spud
by Martin Myall •
It used to be an underhand trick of greengrocers to sell you potatoes with a lot of dried mud clinging to them – you came to expect that, but what you wouldn’t expect is a hand grenade, which is precisely what one customer from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz) found in his bag of potatoes.
Illegal Phone Taps
by Martin Myall •
A man, who had already spent 18 months in prison, had his prison sentence revoked because the phone-tap evidence on which lead to his being found guilty was ruled ‘illegal.’
Misplaced Trust
by Martin Myall •
A British citizen in Almería was arrested, charged and found guilty of swindling a pensioner of his savings. The 22-year-old man obtained over 18,000 euros from the pensioner’s account using his victim’s banking book and password.