Heartless money grab

A COSTA Blanca couple have each been given nine month prison terms for misappropriating €148,000 from two teenage nephews who were orphaned and went to live with them.

The Alicante Provincial Court also ordered compensation payments of €80,000 each to the two now grown-up nephews.

The boys were 13 and 17 when they went to live with their relatives, based in Sant Joan d'Alacant, after the death of their father and mother. However, over the next six years their adoptive parents stole €109,181 in orphan's pensions, €40,000 from their mother's account and €182,000 from their grandfather after his death.