Dermot McArdle has been ordered to serve two years in prison for killing his wife after failing to compensate her family.

Dermot McArdle has been ordered to serve two years in prison for killing his wife after failing to compensate her family. McArdle, 40, could have avoided jail if he had paid e220,000 to his victim Kelly-Anne Corcoran's grieving relatives. But now he must turn himself in to the Spanish authorities by the middle of this week -- or they will issue an international arrest warrant.McArdle was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife and handed...

Romanian man was arrested by Local Police in Velez Malaga for allegedly abusing his partner

Romanian man was arrested by Local Police in Velez Malaga for allegedly abusing his partner, also Romanian, in Torre del Mar. The police were called by neighbours and found the victim being kicked and punched by the man who fled the scene when the police arrived. However, he was caught and taken into custo...

man was arrested by Local Police in Velez Malaga for allegedly stabbing the owner of a bar in Torre del Mar.

man was arrested by Local Police in Velez Malaga for allegedly stabbing the owner of a bar in Torre del Mar. When police were caused to the scene of the fight, they found the owner, a Belgian man, with a wound to the stomach that was bleeding profusely. Meanwhile, the attacker, whose hands were covered in blood, had been retained in the toilets. The officers found a 15-centimetre knife in the kitchen, where the attack allegedly took place,...

father, daughter and son-in-law- have been sentenced to pay a fine of 5,400 euros for having run a rubbish dump without authorization.

father, daughter and son-in-law- have been sentenced to pay a fine of 5,400 euros for having run a rubbish dump without authorization. Malaga Criminal Court number 4 has considered that they carried out a crime against the environment by running the dump, in the Loma del Esparragal are of Estepona. They had a contract for a project to receive and recycle waste, but what they actually did was completely different.It is believed that they...

Benjamin and Solomon Marrache, appeared before the Magistrates Court yesterday charged with false accounting in respect of E1.8m of client money.

Gibraltar bank account supposed to hold the company’s cash in fact had a balance of less than nine Euros and no credit facility.Two senior executives at a prominent Gibraltar law firm, brothers Benjamin and Solomon Marrache, appeared before the Magistrates Court yesterday charged with false accounting in respect of E1.8m of client money.The two men were arrested...

2,000 people working without a contract last year, and nearly 500 of them were also collecting unemployment pay.

Work inspectors in the province of Málaga found some 2,000 people working without a contract last year, and nearly 500 of them were also collecting unemployment pay. Shops and the hostelry business were most controlled by the inspectors in the province last year, and their work recovered 12 million € additional income for Social Security.The numbers are four times higher than those seen in 2008 as the number of work inspections is stepped...

900 foreign criminals were expelled from the country last year

Spanish Ministry of the Interior has announced plans to reduce the number of foreign prisoners being held in Spanish jails. They want to try to get prisoners to serve their time in the jails of their country of origin.In Spain there are 27,091 foreigner prisoners from 110 countries currently, 242% more than in 2000. The numbers include Cataluña where responsibility for prisons has been devolved to the region.A statement from the Ministry...

Socialist Mayor of Cártama, José Garrido, has been indicted on charges of perversion of the course of justice.

Socialist Mayor of Cártama, José Garrido, has been indicted on charges of perversion of the course of justice. He is accused by the Prosecutors’ Office of having deliberately let an order expire against a local resident who had built a home on non-buildable land.The case is being investigated by Instruction Court 5 in Málaga and refers to December 2005 when the Town Hall inspectors noted the house being built on rustic land. There was an...

Date for the start of the court cases for the ‘Malaya’ corruption scandal and the ‘Ballena Blanca’ money laundering affair could coincide

Date for the start of the court cases for the ‘Malaya’ corruption scandal and the ‘Ballena Blanca’ money laundering affair could coincide and that it causing differences between the Málaga Provincial Court and the Anti Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. Final start dates for both cases are still to be set, but they could coincide according to the President of...

Two Latin American boys aged 14 and 16 have been charged with the murder of the 71 year old British pensioner Peter Cockshutt

Two Latin American boys aged 14 and 16 have been charged with the murder of the 71 year old British pensioner Peter Cockshutt who was found dead in his home in Arona on the Costa del Silencio, on Tenerife, after what is thought to have been a burglary gone wrong. One of the boys was arrested on Tuesday afternoon, the other on Tuesday night.The British man, who comes from Brandesburton, near Beverley in East Yorkshire was stabbed twice in...

Torrevieja Brits are the largest group, making up 16 percent of the total number of operations being carried out

Brits are the largest group, making up 16 percent of the total number of operations being carried outForeign patients now make up 42% of the activity in the operating theatres at the District Hospital in Torrevieja. The largest group is the British, who made up 16% of the 22,640 operations carried out in the hospital in 2009. It shows the high numbers of British tourists in the area, and the number who live in the town for at least part...

price of resale property in Spain increased in January

price of resale property in Spain increased in January for the first time in 24 months, according to the real estate portal fotocasa.es. Prices rose by 0.6% on average, with the regions of Cataluña, and La Rioja seeing the greatest recovery in price at 4.6% and 4.5%. Prices also rose in the regions of Comunidad Valenciana (2,2%), Asturias (2%), Baleares (1,9%), Aragón (1,4%), Galicia (0,9%) and Madrid (0,7%).It takes the average price of...

Baltasar Garzón, is to appeal against the Supreme Court case which accused him of adopting resolutions

Baltasar Garzón, is to appeal against the Supreme Court case which accused him of adopting resolutions which were allegedly a perversion of the course of justice, by starting to investigate the disappearances of people during the Franco years in Spain.Garzón has said that the Supreme Court case is ‘unsustainable and incomprehensible’ and he has accused the Judge Luciano Varela of using ‘depreciatory arguments’ with no legal base. Garzón...

woman was reported missing last November, and her chopped up body was found on waste land in Campos, Mallorca

Five Ecuadorians have been arrested on Mallorca in connection with the discovery of the body of a 35 year old Bolivian woman.The woman was reported missing last November, and her chopped up body was found on waste land in Campos, Mallorca, the day after the first three people were arrested this week. Paul Gregory R.C., aged 41; Norma del Rocio V.S., aged 39, and Luis Rodrigo Q.Q. who is said to have been the main author of the killing and...