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An 84 year old Marbella resident has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing her 83 year old wife in their home. A court placed him in pre-trial custody on Monday and ordered that he undergo a mental evaluation to determine his state of mind. Last Friday, an attack took place in their home in Elvira-Las Chapas in Marbella. READ …

A BRITISH expat living in Palma, Spain was arrested after a violent attack that injured the victim’s eyes. Last Tuesday (30 September), the Policia Nacional arrested the suspect for serious injury. The arrested Brit was described as a ‘young man’ and was not known to the victim, who reprimanded him and his friends for throwing bottles at passing vehicles. READ …

After the Policia Nacional learned that he was wanted in South Korea on drug charges, a BRITISH man has been arrested at Palma de Mallorca’s airport. Interpol issued a warrant for the arrest and extradition of the Briton, who is believed to be around 40. He was accused of being involved in the trafficking of cannabis. READ MORE PALMA DE …

A MAN stole €7,000 of jewellery from his aunt and was arrested before he could board a UK-bound flight at Alicante-Elche airport. The authorities have not disclosed his nationality. The Policia Nacional was contacted by the victim’s child who reported that his mother found out several pieces of jewelry had been stolen from her home, in Alicante’s Playa de San …

The Supreme Court announced that Spain’s Attorney-General will face trial in November over allegations of leakage of information about the partner of an opposition leader. The trial of Alvaro Garcia Ortiz has ordered 40 witnesses to testify. He is accused of leaking confidential case files about Isabel Diaz Ayuso’s partner, the prominent Partido Popular President of the Community of Madrid. …

A FRENCH FUGITIVE wanted by the police for murder stole a boat and fled to his native France. However, he was caught on an autoroute in Costa Blanca after the GPS tracking device revealed where it was. Two men took the €120,000 vessel from the marina at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer and put it on a trailer that they stole a year earlier. …

Former mayor Jose Mas of Lliber has been found guilty of fraud in relation to building permits granted for 290 illegal villas. The properties were marketed at between €300,000 to €500,000 to United Kingdom and European buyers. Construction took place in the Marina Alta region town between 1999 and 2003 on land which was classified as ‘non-developable’. READ MORE JOSE …

The violent altercation between two homeless people in a Valencia entrance doorway escalated from a squabble to a fatal stabbing of one of them by a part of an parasol. A judge remanded an Algerian citizen, 31, into custody on Wednesday after the death of a Moroccan victim aged 37. The accused killer exercised his right to not testify. READ …

A GROUP Of Malaga Area Squatters Called Police to Say the Property They Were Occupying Illegally Was Being Robbed. Details of the break-in were released only this week. Police Nacional officers were called to the house in Antequera around 1am. The complaints admitted that the squatters had been living there. READ MORE ANTEQUERA Three people, aged 53, 54, and 33, …

Police found crystal meth inside the car of the wife of John George’s alleged murderer. His body was dumped into a Costa Blanca ditch back in January. Madison Smyth, 20, spent 11 days in Fontcalent prison near Alicante before a €20,000 bail was raised. She will be required to regularly check-in at the court and her passport has been removed. …