Rushing out!

A GOALKEEPER has become the first openly gay player in Spain.

Alberto Lejarraga, of Marbella Football Club, published a photo kissing his boyfriend to celebrate his club being promoted to Spain’s fourth tier. The shotstopper put the picture on Twitter as Marbella were promoted to the Segunda RFEF.

The Madrid-born player also posted a montage of other happy moments and hugs with his partner.

952 147 834 treatment or ride on their boat’ as compensation, an offer that was also rejected.

Gary and Jutta requested two complimentary rooms for two weeks in October as compensation.

A spokesperson for Tui told the Olive Press: “We recognise that some services fell short of our usually high standards.

“We’d like to reassure all customers that we regularly audit all of our hotels in respect to health and safety.”

Meanwhile, Hotel Illa D’OR called the Turners’ request for a two week free holiday in October ‘unreasonable’. They said they would not ‘succumb to pressure from any guest seeking to receive free accommodation.’

“We want to emphasise that our hotel takes pest control very seriously and we have a company contracted to provide preventative and control services,” they said in an email.

“Thank you very much for always being by my side, through thick and thin! This time we had to live the beauty of this!” he wrote.

The Madrid native joins Getafe's Jakub Jankto as the second La Liga player to come out, but he is currently playing on loan in the Czech league.

Referee Jesus Tomillero, from La Línea, also came out as gay earlier this year.

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No justice

NEWS that a judge bailed a British gangster described as ‘extremely dangerous’ by police after he was already on bail for a separate murder attempt boggles the mind.

This is the man allegedly responsible for killing doorman Jose Pisani at a restaurant in Mijas last month. ‘Harry’ is known to police up and down the costas as a violent armed criminal with, at least, two incredibly serious charges hanging over him.

And a judge lets him go free to roam the coast causing all the mayhem he likes.

The message this sends is simple - and depressing: While the coast is seeing an upsurge in mafia activity, the judiciary is dragging its feet. Or worse.

It just isn’t right that the ordinary, law-abiding residents of this region should run the risk of having an encounter with one of these thugs.

Any one of us might go to the wrong restaurant or bar at the wrong time. Cross paths with the wrong character and undergo a potentially life-altering trauma. As Pisani did.

Why on earth would a judge or prosecutors allow men charged with attempted murder, who point guns at police and hold military-grade arsenals in their apartments, to go free?

Or did they not realise who they were dealing with?

When Harry was arrested for the second time in just two months, did the Policia Nacional not talk to the Guardia Civil?

What’s more, did Fuengirola court check if he was already on bail or had two passports?

There are only two possible answers to these questions and it is hard to know which is worse.

The Spanish legal system needs to get a grip and put the safety of its citizens and residents ahead of departmental rivalry or general incompetence. Or next time it could be a child or a mother in the crossfire!

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