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Friday 6th October 2017
CAMPING CANNIBAL
drunken brawl between two British men at the San Javier camping site (stock picture) took a bloody twist last Saturday night, in a scene straight out of a Hannibal Lecter movie, as one of them gnawed off part of the other’s cheek. The cannibalistic twist saw the 47-year-old British national, only identified as JB, being arrested by the San Javier local police, with a receptionist, called Siri, telling the La Verdad newspaper that she spotted what appeared to be a “piece of meat” on the ground and a “pool of blood” amidst false claims that a man had been bitten by a dog. A group of children were walking by and saw the men involved in a brawl and called for help, with the receptionist rushing to the scene.
The man who had been assaulted, identified as 49year-old JD, was discovered as having a piece of his left cheek missing, with his jaw bone clearly visible, and officers immediately summoned an ambulance to take the victim to hospital. Police sources told La Verdad that JD was so drunk, that he had no sense of what had happened in the wake of the attack at 9.45 pm, whilst the assailant managed to run away, before he was eventually caught later, and handed over to the Guardia Civil to face felony charges of assault. The men, who were said to be “friends”, had been drinking with their wives on the terraces of their bungalows at San Javier since the afternoon. The two families had been renting property
on the site for “several months”, according to Siri the receptionist, and had “never caused any trouble”. Siri told La Verdad that one man started an argu-
ment, and as the other tried to calm him down, the assault then took place as they were apparently walking away from the terrace to go to the bar on the site.
MONARCH DETHRONED
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onday’s collapse of Monarch Airlines led to the UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation at the start of the week, with 110 thousand people being brought back home on specially chartered planes, at an estimated cost of 60 million pounds to the British government. Some of those repatriations include passengers using Monarch on services to Alicante-Elche airport, with the company running up to eight services per day during the high season from Gatwick, Luton, Leeds,
Manchester, and Birmingham. The accountants KPMG announced in the early hours of Monday that Monarch, Britain’s longestsurviving airline brand, had been placed into administration after 49 years of business, and that all further flights from the UK had been cancelled. One implication of Monarch’s collapse concerns a number of British postal courier services in Spain that have used the company to ferry mail to and
from the UK at a comparatively low cost, which will
mean they will have to make other arrangements.