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PAY IT BACK
Britain’s most wanted female fugitive who spent nine years hiding out in Spain has her jail sentence doubled
to the UK while out walking her dogs.
She had been living in the town of Santa Barbara near Tarragona under the alias ‘Maria’, where she had an apartment above an English academy.
The fraudster was initially sentenced to 8 years in pris-
By Walter Finch
on, while being ordered to repay the sum, which was a tiny fraction of the £1 billion she is thought to have laundered on behalf of a scheme to sell mobile phones.
Her part involved laundering millions of pounds of stolen money through offshore bank
WATCH THE BIRDIES Revenge attack
FIVE teenagers have been arrested for stealing racing pigeons from a Benidorm club.
The gang was caught during a routine traffic check in Alicante when cops spotted seven birds inside their car.
The gang, who have been charged with theft, had forced cages to steal a total of 18 birds.
Police recovered an additional seven pigeons which have been returned to their owners.
During two robberies last year some 120 pigeons worth €100,000 were stolen from the same club.
A COUPLE in Valencia have been arrested after attacking a minor who is accused of killing their son in 2021. The incident took place outside the city’s courthouse after the alleged killer had attended juvenile court. The suspect managed to resist the attack, and was treated by an ambulance for minor knife injuries. He is accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy in the heart after they arranged a fight on social media.
