CRACKED

“Nothing like this has ever happened to me before and I knew straight away I needed to call the police,” she told the Olive Press At the time the discovery led to considerable speculation that it might have belonged to a Dutch expat woman who had lived in the community years before.

The Guardia Civil is unable to reveal the identity of the deceased, as the family has not given them permission to do so.

POLICE in Villajoyosa have arrested a pair of safecrackers who stole €50,000 plus jewellery in 16 robberies from hotel rooms across Spain. They forced open room safes by drilling a hole in their sides. The investigation was carried out in association with Europol as the men were part of a gang operating in Germany, Portugal, Austria and the Czech Republic.

The men entered hotels posing as guests in their search for wealthy victims, sometimes checking in the night before.

The thieves have been remanded in custody with associates also nicked in Austria and Portugal.