THE WEATHER
Edition 357
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Friday 2nd February 2018
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British Mum Charged
34-year-old British woman has lost custody of her three-year-old son, after taking 13 hours to report that he had gone missing on Paseo Juan Aparicio in Torrevieja last week. The unnamed Torrevieja resident has lived in Spain for a number of years, with her son having been born in the northern part of the Valencia region in Castellón. A Torrevieja court has charged her with child abandonment, with the youngster now taken into temporary care by Valencian social services. No mention has been made of the child’s father or whether he is in the picture at all. A worker at a fast food outlet in the area spotted the youngster walking on his own at around 8.30 pm on Wednesday January 24th, and called the Torrevieja local police. He was wearing
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employee found out that she was indeed the child’s mother. She was told that the local police had taken the youngster and that she should pick him up immediately from the station. Instead, she took another 12 hours to call the Torrevieja police the following morning. They told her to come immediately or else the boy
would be put into a provincial care home, but then another two hours ticked by before she finally arrived to pick him up at 10.30 am. The mother told officers when she finally went to the station, that she had failed to arrive earlier because she knew her child was in safe hands. She said she lost sight of him while they were out with friends.
Body In Ditch Riddle
he Murcia Local Police is trying to find out whether a 39-year-old British woman was deliberately mowed down by a car, or was accidently killed, after she was discovered in an irrigation canal early on Saturday morning. Attempts by paramedics to revive her were unsuccessful, and she was found less than a kilometre away from a burnt out car close to the village of Los Ramos on the RM-301 road between San Javier and Torreagüera. The car owner was arrested and refused to testify before a judge, but was
bailed at the weekend, pending further investigations. The collision is said to have happened shortly before 1.00 am, with the car driver and another person (both Spanish nationals and Murcia residents) being investigated for the crimes of “failing to provide a duty of relief”. At the time of going to press, the identity of the woman has not been disclosed, and the police are working on two possible theories as to what actually happened. One scenario suggests
that that the driver accidently hit the British national, and then when discovering that she was dead, he fled
the scene after setting fire to his vehicle. The other theory was that it was a prearranged crime.