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.
Andalusia
Regional news from Andalucia
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.
False Paedophile Hunt
by Martin Myall •
Three minors of some 12 years of age disappeared one day from school and created huge social alarm over a supposed paedophile when in reality they had simply skived off classes.
Reader’s Letter: Signposting Confusion
by Editor •
Leaving La Herradura on the 31/01/2011 en route to Málaga airport we nearly missed our flight because the signage to the airport is non-existent at the turn off to the new ring road