ISSUE NO. 1436
10 - 16 JANUARY 2013
Prison guard is jailed for fondling inmates A PRISON GUARD who ‘lewdly’ fondled two inmates has been jailed for sexual assault. The El Acebuche prison guard
and head of department was sentenced to two years after being found guilty at Almeria Criminal Court.
MARKET DAY: A favourite with British residents.
The guard - known as JALC ordered an unjustified strip search on several male inmates in July 2008, ‘lewdly’ fondling one of them. The victim tolerated the incident thinking it was ‘the ordinary way of carrying out the frisks’. Then in the early hours of March 1 last year, JALC ‘silently’ entered a cell in the prison’s medical unit where he fondled another inmate who was clothed at the time. JALC claimed that he had entered the cell because he heard noises and believed an escape attempt might be taking place, but the judge ruled this out as the warden was not informed nor was any written report made about a possible escape attempt. Additionally, the guard entered the cell in a very Most of the Britons ‘discreet’ manner. live in the Urcal and El The court accepted the Saltador districts. prosecutor’s request of Due to the high two years in prison, a number of British €7,200 fine plus €1,500 residents, town hall compensation for the first information is also victim and €700 for the provided in English. second.
British flavour to local life THE British remain the second largest community in Huercal-Overa for the fifth year in a row, outnumbered only by the Spanish. There are now 1,232
British residents out of a total of 19,585, representing 6.31 per cent of the town’s population, according to the 2012 municipal census (padron) figures.
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Mountain high AN Adra resident wants to become the first Almeria woman to conquer the world’s three highest mountain peaks outside the Himalayas, with her final feat the 6,962metre-high Aconcagua in Argentina.
35-year plan THE Popular Party wants to give the titleholders of eight marinas in Almeria Province a 35-year ownership extension when their present deals expire.