Santiago del Valle García, imprisoned without bail by the judge in the Court of First Instance in Huelva charged with murder of Mari Luz

Santiago del Valle García, has been ordered to prison without bail by the judge in the Court of First Instance in Huelva on charges of murder of Mari Luz and and against sexual freedom.. The judge told him that he must also serve the two years and nine month sentence handed down against him in 2006 by the Court of First Instance in Sevilla for abusing his own...

Five-hundred and seventy eight women have been murdered by their husbands or ex-husbands in Spain.

The ex boyfriend of a woman found dead in Asturias on Friday is reported to be in custody A man reported by Cadena Ser as an ex boyfriend has been arrested for the murder of Patricia Fernández Guzmán, whose burnt body was found dumped on an illegal rubbish tip near a disused mine in Asturias on Friday. Her body was found on the tip in Ciaño, a district of Langreo,...

Mari Luz Cortes Questions remain where Santiago del Valle Garcia was on the day Madeleine disappeared from her Algarve holiday flat.

The questions remain where was 52-year-old Spaniard Santiago del Valle Garcia was on the day Madeleine disappeared from her Algarve holiday flat. Garcia was detained yesterday in Portugal, on suspicion of killing five-year-old Mari Luz Cortes. Four people have been indicted in connection with the death of 5-year-old girl Mari Luz Cortes, whose disappearance...

Moroccan customs officers have stepped up there hunt for drug smugglers in Tangiers

Moroccan customs officers have stepped up there hunt for drug smugglers in Tangiers, a short ferry hop from Europe's profitable shores.Smugglers coming through the northern port know they can't simply conceal their contraband under the floor or in the doors of their vehicle -- even behind the instrument panel or inside the petrol tank would be naive.Instead...

Moroccan drug baron was jailed along with the former head of Tangier's judicial police after a lengthy trial

The dark green fern-like plant grows well in poor soil of the northern Rif mountains and has come to be known as "green gold" because it staves off grinding poverty for thousands of local families.Smugglers hide the drug in containers and trucks or use powerful speedboats to ship it to Barcelona in Spain or Marseille in France.Casablanca court jailed Mohamed...

British man from South Shields was being held in a Spanish police cell last night

British man from South Shields was being held in a Spanish police cell last night, accused of trying to smuggle more than half a tonne of cocaine through the Mediterranean.The 50-year-old South Shields man, named only by his initials RPJ, was held after undercover officers from both Spain and Portugal intercepted a shipment from the West African country of Gambia.The...

Gibraltar non co-operatation in Spain’s fight against money laundering

The government of Spain has requested has requested the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) to return Gibraltar to its list of non-cooperative off-shore financial services centre because of its ‘opacity’ and its location close to the Costa del Sol, as part of Spain’s fight against money laundering.The OECD has so far considered the...

Roshan Jamal Khan detained in Spain

Roshan Jamal Khan was detained in Spain on January 19 and kept in jail since, accused of being an Al Qaeda-linked suicide bomber. Spain has not explained his crime. This despite the Indian Ministry of External Affairs writing to Spain in March first week that Roshan was “clean”.From her, it is difficult to get the story of how the ex-student of south Mumbai’s cosmopolitan St Xavier’s College, popular as a boxer, went on to be an olive trader...

Alfredo Marijuán, Carlos Farré , Isaac Pacheco Suárez, Eusebio Vázquez Fernández have been charged

Alfredo Marijuán and Carlos Farré have been detained in custody and Isaac Pacheco Suárez and Eusebio Vázquez Fernández were released on bail.Four inspectors from an elite unit that combats organised crime in Malaga have been charged with bribery, embezzlement, dereliction of duty, ownership of illegal arms, and revealing confidential information. Forty officers have been questioned in connection with the case, which relates to alleged...

William McFarlane with four other Englishmen arrested in Benidorm

five men arrested in a swoop on drugs and illegal gambling in Spain yesterday. William McFarlane, 56, from Glasgow, was taken into custody along with four Englishmen when police targeted a suspected drugs distribution and gambling den in the centre of Benidorm. Officers recovered £77,000 as well as a quantity of illicit drugs, prescription drugs and cigarett...

Spanish T.V. reporting the Mari Luz Cortés case say she was suffocated to death, and then thrown into the water afterwards.

Spanish T.V. reports Telecinco has revealed what it calls the definitive results of the autopsy carried out on the body of the five year old There has been new information in the Mari Luz Cortés case, the five year old girl from Huelva whose body was found in Ria de Huelva a week ago.Telecinco is reporting that the definitive results of the autopsy carried out...

U.K. supply of high speed, radar-evading boats to smugglers operating between North Africa and Spain

Accused of taking over the role of a Lowestoft couple in supplying boats to drug smugglers 0n the Spanish Costas went to the same business to purchase the hulls, a court has heard.Ian Rush, 43, is on trial at Ipswich Crown Court where HM Revenue and Customs has alleged he was instrumental in setting up a company to continue the work of Lowestoft-based Crompton...

Mari Luz Cortés neither of the two autopsies has established whether she was murdered or died accidentally.

According to a report in today's ABC, neither of the two autopsies performed on little Mari Luz Cortés, the five year old girl whose body was discovered in an estuary near Huelva last Friday has established whether she was murdered or died accidentally. The autopsies did reveal that Mari Luz sustained a broken rib and a head injury, but it appears that neither were responsible for her death and may have been caused post-mortem as a result...

John and Jenny Harvey are terrified to leave the house in case the bulldozers move in while they are away

The Harveys moved from Hunmanby to the Alpujarra mountains, near the coast of south east Spain, five years ago.John and Jenny Harvey are terrified to leave the house in case the bulldozers move in while they are away.And to make matters worse, a crippling fine of 80,000 euros (£61,000) has been imposed on the couple.“This has ruined our lives,” said 64-year-old...

Adele Spencer fought off the Moroccan-looking women when they broke into her home and tried to take 18-month old Annabelle from her high-chair

Adele Spencer, 28, has told how she fought off the Moroccan-looking women when they broke into her home and tried to take 18-month old Annabelle from her high-chair.The incident came just three days after another British family in the same town were targeted. Yesterday it was claimed the family of missing Madeleine McCann were keen to find out more about the cases.Miss Spencer said: "If I had been 10 seconds later she would have been gone....

Mass tourism and the tawdry "luxury" of the large hotels are attracting gangsters, drug traffickers, time-share villains, and other undesirables

The spate of poor quality construction now seen in the Canary Islands is ruining the environment and turning many places into eyesores. This is the inevitable result of the islands' policy of opting for mass tourism.Although most of the income generated by tourism does not stay in the islands, the little that does is spent unwisely. The "get rich quick" mentality...

Irene Cunningham died in a hospital in the Costa del Sol

The shocked husband of a Plymouth woman who collapsed and died unexpectedly during a Spanish diving holiday has paid tribute to his 'lovely' wife.Irene Cunningham, aged 53, of Greenbank, died in a hospital in the Costa del Sol on Saturday, March 1, after suffering a massive heart attack during a waterfront walk the previous day. Her devastated husband Pete Cunningham said it was 'an honour' to have been married to Irene. Pete, aged 51,...

Red Duchess dies an extraordinary personality

The funeral took place in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on Sunday for the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, who died at the age of 72 on Saturday. The local Town Hall called three days of official mourning and described her death as an ‘irreparable loss.’ An extraordinary council meeting is to take place to name the Duchess an adoptive...

Mari Luz Cortés DNA testing has now confirmed the identification 100%

DNA testing has confirmed that the badly decomposed body found floating in the Ría de Huelva -the common estuary of the Tinto and Odiel Rivers - on Friday afternoon, is that of Mari Luz Cortés, the five year old girl who disappeared in the city on 13th January. She went missing after leaving her home in the El Torrejón district of Huelva for a short trip to...

City Hall of Huelva has decreed 3 days of official mourning for Mari Luz

The City Hall of Huelva has decreed 3 days of official mourning for Mari Luz.Huelva mayor Pedro Rodriguez said the child had been struck on the head but the cause of death was not known. Rodriguez declared three days of mourning starting Saturd...

Mari Luz’s body found in the river at Huelva

Reports in the Spanish press and phone calls from reporters in Huelva have confirmed Five year old Mari Luz, missing from Huelva since she left her home in the El Torrejón area of the city on 13th January for a short trip to the local sweets kiosk, has been found dead. El Mundo said her body was found on Friday evening in Huelva province in the Torrearenilla marshland, in a river close to the Cepsa refinery installations, by an employee...

Mari Luz Cortés family ransom demand for two million Euros.

The family of the missing five year old girl, Mari Luz Cortés, who vanished from Huelva in the middle of January, says they have received a ransom demand for two million Euros.They say they received a phone call from an individual yesterday, who demanded two million € to release the child. But at a press conference held today in the Plaza Rosa del Torrejón,...

Audrey Fitzpatrick has met Bertie Ahern

Bertie Ahern has met with the mother of a teenager missing in the Costa del Sol since New Year's day. Mr Ahern met Audrey Fitzpatrick whose 15-year-old daughter Amy has not been seen since January 1st, when she left a friend's house to walk to her home in Mijas on the Costa del Sol in the south of Spain. Amy's stepfather, Dave Mahon, was also at the meeting. A Government statement said Mr Ahern reiterated the Government's offer to provide...

Spanish tax office confirmed that it has obtained the names of 100 Spanish citizens believed to have evaded taxes in Liechtenstein

The Spanish tax office confirmed at the weekend that it has obtained the names of 100 Spanish citizens believed to have evaded taxes in Liechtenstein, becoming the 15th country involved in an international probe into fiscal fraud in the Alpine principality.Tax officials did not disclose the identity of the suspected tax evaders, although most are believed to be wealthy business owners with millions of euros of financial assets deposited...