THE WEATHER
Edition 322
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Friday 19th May 2017
NO HIDING PLACE
59-year-old British man has been arrested in Jacarilla on historical child sexual abuse charges dating back to the early seventies. The National Police executed a European Arrest warrant on the man who, at the age of 16, is accused of having raped his two younger stepsisters on up to 18 occasions, as well as making both of them pregnant. The National Police say that the abuse began in 1973 when the man was 16, and he started sexually assualting his 12-year-old youngest step-sister. The rapes continued for three years, and when she became pregnant aged 15,
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she had an abortion and ran away to live with her grandmother. The teenage predator then turned to sexually abusing his other step-sister up to three times a week, and she eventually had a son by him when she was aged 18. The accused man’s father covered up his son’s misdeamnors for many years, and advised him to hide in Spain away from the clutches of the British authorities. Once he passed away, the victims reported what happened to them decades ago, and the UK police liased with their counterparts in the National Police in launching a search to find the fugitive,
which they duly did in Jacarilla earlier this month. A spokesman for the National Police said: “National Police officers have arrested a British fugi-
tive in Alicante Province on a European Arrest Warrant for crimes of sexual exploitation and rape. He faces possible life in prison in the UK.”
MAJOR APPRECIATION
ruz Roja (the Spanish equivalent of the Red Cross) got a massive donation of 10 thousand euro this week from HELP Murcia Mar Menor in recognition of their efforts during the flooding that hit the Los Alcázares area during the autumn and winter. The presentation was made on Tuesday at HELP’s monthly meeting at the Las Claras centre in Los Alcázares, with HELP’s vice-president Ann Sheperson handing over the cheque to Jose Cortes Capmona, the Cruz Roja president for the Murcia region. Joining a number of Cruz
Roja representatives for the presentation was Ann Hetherington a long standing member of HELP Murcia Mar Menor, who proposed the Cruz Roja as this year’s recipient of its annual cash donation to a charitable organisation within the Murcia region. Señor Cortes Carmona said that at the moment there was no Cruz Roja in Los Alcázares, the closest one being in San Pedro del Pinatar and that this had caused problems in the past, but they hoped to be opening a local office soon and that HELP´s donation would help fund the project. He also talked about the
important work of the Cruz Roja, which tries to fill the gap between what the national and regional gov-
ernments provide, and what the poor need in the Murcia region at times of difficulty like during last winter.
See page 2 for the week´s forecast