ISSUE NO. 1431
6 - 12 DECEMBER 2012
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Briton sought for child abduction attempt A MAN named as Robert Edward Bill, a 58-year-old expatriate from St Asaph (Wales), is being hunted by police in Spain. The resident of Torre del Mar has been confirmed by the authorities as the main suspect in the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Velez-Malaga. Sources at the Press Department in the Malaga National Police’s central
station confirmed to Euro Weekly News that the British resident has been under surveillance since last week and investigations are being intensified throughout the province. “If anyone, be it a Spanish or foreign resident in the area, has seen him or knows anything about where this man could be now, please call 091 or 092 and report it,” police sources said. “For all we know, he
could have flown back to Britain.” The kidnapping attempt allegedly occurred in Calle Huerto Carrion, near Velez-Malaga Court House. Video footage recorded by CCTV cameras around the building saw a man trying to force a girl into his car, a grey-silver Peugeot 106 with registration 2109BCM. The car had a ‘Baby on board’ (Bebe a bordo) sticker in the rear window. The girl managed to escape his grip, getting out of the car through the opposite door and running away. Neither the video footage nor the victim’s statements to the police were enough to confirm the attacker’s identity. Robert Edward Bill, a former teacher, is considered a ‘highly dangerous sex offender’ by the British authorities. Before moving to Periana in the summer - and later CRASH DRILL: Civil Protection members used make-up to make it more realistic. to Torre del Mar - he was found guilty of making and possessing pornographic images of children by Mold Crown Court in Wales, the A CAR crash simulation set up on involving three cars which burst BBC reported. He had also the A-7 carriageway was declared into flames, with eight people been convicted of a success by the authorities in ‘injured’. Training covered how to attempted child abduction, Nerja and Torrox. Members of rescue the victims and extinguish as well as assaulting a Civil Protection enacted a collision fires in a similar situation. seven-year-old girl.
Staged crash ‘a success’
FRONT EXTRA
Eviction stopped THE first home eviction in Almuñecar was prevented by a group of more than 100 residents, including protest group Stop Motril and local IU and PSOE party members.
Jet-ski test THE Andalucian Water Jet Ski championship staged a tournament at Burriana Beach in Nerja, with 40 contestants competing from all over the region.
No masts UP to 32 licences for installing phone mast towers have been rejected and nine more were declared ‘out of date’ by Velez-Malaga Town Hall, according to local regulations.
River rescue A MAN, 59, from Madrid was assisted by Nerja Civil Protection operatives at the Chillar River after he fainted during the upstream hiking route.
Job hazard VELEZ-MALAGA Town Hall will be one of the first in Andalucia to issue its own guidelines for risk prevention in the workplace, according to the Human Resources Councillor Manuel Gutierrez.