THE WEATHER
Edition 335
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Friday 18th August 2017
VANISHED FUGITIVES A
year on after 61-yearold British expat Rob Sneddon was mowed down in a hit-and-run in Guardamar, no arrests or charges have been brought against anybody, despite an extensive publicity campaign to track down the occupants of a UK-registered Land Rover. His daughter Mandy told The Courier this week that she has heard nothing at all from the authorities or of anybody being held in connection with the incident. Mr. Sneddon, originally from Scotland, was a psychiatric nurse at the famous Priory Clinic rehab centre and he spent several years living in Eastbourne in Sussex before moving to Guardamar some 16 years ago. He had four children and four grandchildren. Rob died on the N-332 near his home at around 10.40 pm on Sunday August 21st 2016, with the Guardia Civil launching a major search to find the driver of
the Land Rover, which included sharing information via the Guardia's N-332 Facebook page. The Guardia revealed the vehicle was registered to a UK firm and had been liaising with British police to track down Mr Sneddon’s killer, but the search appears to have a drawn a blank in the last 12 months, with no information being made public at all about the case, let alone any arrests. Rumours swirled around at the time via internet forums and social media as to what part of the UK the car came from and what the occupants were doing in Spain, but no hard facts emerged in public from the authorities. The vehicle was abandoned after it hit Mr. Sneddon, and dusted down for fingerprints, with the Guardia taking the rare step at the time of publicising the number plate in an appeal for sightings of the Land Rover prior to the hit-and-
run. Mandy was on holiday to see her father with her young daughter Sophia when they found out the news. Mandy had to idenitify her father's body and described the experience as "horrific". "It's beyond anything you think could ever happen to you", she said at the time. "We don't have a clue what happened or who was driving the vehicle. I had to ID his body and it was totally horrific ... His face - he was a mess. My dad was crossing over the road and he was hit by a Land Rover. He would have been dead on impact." Robert's family then launched a GoFundMe
appeal to raise money towards his funeral expenses and costs which included the cost of transporting his body back to his native Scotland. 12 months later, they have no closure or justice in regard to what happened on that fateful Sunday evening last August. Mandy told The Courier that her father was given a quiet funeral in Scotland last autumn, and that she wanted to pass on her "heartfelt thanks" to everybody on the Costa Blanca and beyond who supported her and her family. "A year down the line, it is still very hard to get my head round what happened", Mandy added.
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