THE WEATHER
Edition 331
B
Friday 21st July 2017
COLD AND BRUTAL
ritish pensioner Charlie Bevill-Warcup has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and given a stern rebuke by an Elche judge, after a jury found him guilty a fortnight ago of killing his partner Rosie Broadwell at his San Miguel de Salinas home on the Urbanización Costa Blanca in September 2014. Bevill-Warcup continually clubbed Mrs.Broadwell’s head with his walking stick as she lay on his kitchen floor, after an alcohol-fuelled row. A day later he dumped her body a few kilometres away close to the Zoco market site, and reported her as missing to the Guardia Civil, before confessing to killing her some six months later. The judge said that a 14year sentence was being imposed because of the “brutality of the actions and the cold nature of what the
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67-year-old British woman is in a critical condition in Torrevieja Hospital after she was stabbed twice in a Quesada apartment. The Guardia Civil have launched a search for her partner, believed to be British as well, after the incident which happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The identity of the man that the Guardia are looking for has not been revealed, with the victim calling emergency services at 1.00 am. Two Rojales local police
defendant did afterwards”. That included leaving Rosie lying on the floor for at least a day and then continuing as if nothing had happened, including going to various businesses around Quesada to pretend to search for her in her local neighbourhood. The judge added that the
sentence also took into account Bevill-Warcup’s subsequent behaviour of “spending six months without confessing and showing no regret to Rosie’s family and children”. Jurors voted seven-two in favour of an aggravated homicide conviction, as reported in last week’s
Courier. He was found guilty of murder under Spanish law, but on a lower sentencing tariff, because it was accepted that he had acted without predetermination, though on a much higher scale than manslaughter. An appeal over the sentence can be lodged with the Valencian Superior Court.
LEFT FOR DEAD patrols were scrambled to her address at the Thader apartment block on Avenida Costa Azul in Quesada. Officers discovered the British national in a concious state, but with two stab wounds, one of which was in her chest. An ambulance was called to the scene, with the police discovering that her partner had fled the scene. The Guardia Civil were notified and launched a search for her partner, including distributing details of his car across Spain. Some reports suggest that
he may be trying to get out
of the country.
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