EST 2005
15th - 21st September 2017
Smoked out!
A VICIOUS child abuser faces an extra 18 years on top of his prison sentence. Prosecutors want the Almeria man to spend his life behind bars after being convicted of psychologically and sexually abusing his own children. He was jailed several years ago for beating his partner. Since then police have uncovered years of abuse the man inflicted on his three young children, two boys and one girl. They managed to secure a conviction for the violence and now judges are deliberating on his sentence. The court heard how he forced his eldest daughter to clean the house naked and cut her legs with a knife. CREDIT: GUARDIA CIVIL
By Paul Francis THREE people have been arrested after a fake social club was used for the sale of drugs. Guardia Civil investigators shut down the warehouse on the Santa Olaya de Campohermoso Industrial Estate in Nijar, seizing almost a kiBUSTED: lo of marihuana as well as a set of scales, a price list, a laptop, €260 in cash plus a number of documents allegedly detailing sales figures. Disguised as a social club, the venue had at least 150 clients who were forced to sign a written statement and pay a membership fee in
Sadistic father jailed
Police raid the fake Nerja social club. order to use the service. It was reportedly run by three people between the ages of 23 and 25. The investigation began when police noticed a spike in cannabis use and possession charges in the surrounding area.
Drought concerns addressed
THE Agrarian Municipal Council, composed of representatives from public administrations, farmers, irrigators and agricultural companies, and presided over by the mayor of Almeria, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has agreed to tackle the water shortage problem in the region. The mayor advised that farmers who are now irrigating with desalinated water will not be able to count on this option for the 2020 campaign. It became known in May when the Junta de Andalucía cut off the supply of purified water used for the irrigation of the crops for 20 years. The mayor is proposing a free offer of “land annexed for a treatment plant to build the infrastructure
They found a sign on one warehouse that read ‘The Place, members only.’ Detectives organised a stakeout nearby and several people, who were known drug users, were seen visiting the venue before leaving with small bags.
necessar y to close the cycle of water with the system of tertiary use.” The meeting agreed on a working constitution to “definitively solve the water problem in Almeria” and “would guarantee timely water so that the Almerian countr yside does not have to worr y about the supply, guarantee of quality water and, at the lowest possible price.” The water problem in the region is an increasing problem due to rising issues with the allocation of water. Politicians of all parties have expressed a concern that the impact will knock onto consumer prices and availability of water if a distribution method is better arranged.