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Friday 16th February 2018
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he Supreme Court in Madrid has dismissed an appeal over a long jail term handed out to a British paedophile who sexually abused two children of undeclared nationality at his Orihuela Costa home back in 2013. The unnamed man went before Alicante Provincial Court last June and was found guilty of two sex abuse charges on children aged 11 and 12, as well as the crimes of sexual provocation and possessing child pornography. The British national was handed down a 23-yearand-nine-month jail sentence in 2017, with the Supreme Court rejecting the call for a reduction, saying that it was founded on “absolute solid proof” that he was guilty of the charges.
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rish budget air carrier Ryanair is to increase services in Spain over the next year, but admits that it has been cutting fares by up to 30 percent to fill flights to Barcelona and other cities in Catalunya, as holidaymakers are nervous of political upheaval in the region. Tourist numbers in Barcelona dipped after an attack in August left 16 people dead and an illegal independence vote prompted scenes of police violence and mass protests, but have since rebounded. Ryanair still plans to increase capacity in Spain as a whole, sharply in the coming year, adding nine percent more flights in the
The man was arrested by the National Police in March 2014 on computer pornography charges, where they confiscated obscene material involving one of the victims, and countless other internet files that the British national shared with other internet users. The paedophile made
contact with an 11-year-old boy back in August 2013 when he saw him outside his house, and he invited him in to help work in his garden. The pervert groomed and gained the boy’s trust by paying him money and making him gifts of computer games and a remote-con-
trolled car, before moving on to a series of sexual assaults, which he paid up to 10 euros per time. The abuse happened ten times through to March 2014, and the paedophile produced pornographic material involving another man who also abused the boy. That particular abuser has not yet been identified or found. Doctors eventually noticed the abuse the child suffered when the child visited Torrevieja Hospital in March 2014, and they alerted the authorities. It also emerged that the boy had a 12-year-old friend who was also mistreated by the paedophile on at least four separate occasions, after he used the same methods to build up his trust.
Ryanair Expansion
year to March 2019, chief executive Michael O‘Leary said in Madrid this week, compared with an increase of six percent in its network as a whole. The company has committed to services to Murcia’s new Corvera airport in addition to its operations at Alicante-Elche,
which will feature new routes to Newquay in Cornwall, in addition to Sevilla and Gdansk in northern Poland, as part of 29 new services launched from Spain by the company. Capacity in Spain has increased in recent years as operators have moved from destinations in the Middle
East and North Africa in the wake of attacks on tourists. One threat to Ryanair’s rapid expansion plans are relations with pilots. While strike threats in December were averted by a pledge to recognise unions for the first time, the airline has so far only managed to reach a recognition agreement with one of the seven unions with which it is in talks. O‘Leary said Spain’s SEPLA pilots’ union had not yet responded to offers of a pay rise and terms for union recognition and Ryanair was considering bypassing the union and offering the increase directly to pilots something it has done in Ireland.
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