Theheat is on

Barcenas, who himself got 33 years prison in the Gurtel kickbacks-for-contracts scandal, had been hiding numerous documents that linked many former colleagues. The aim of Diaz’s operation was to seize and destroy this compromising material. He is facing charges of misuse of €60,000 of public funds, concealment of a crime and privacy offences.

Behind bars

MAGISTRATES imprisoned a Gibraltar man for eight weeks after he drunkenly attacked his partner.

Ian McIntosh, 45, of Alameda Estate, pleaded guilty to Common Assault and Disorderly Conduct. The attack occurred on February 5, when McIntosh had been drinking heavily at his partner’s flat.

At around 5.30pm he started to scream at her but when she shouted back, ‘he struck her on the side of the neck,’ the court heard.

Brutal attack

backs, as well as bribing firms in the farming sector in exchange for positive inspections. It also ensured that those involved would receive payments from European

Union funding.

Compromising photos of Fuentes with hookers have been published in the press, causing an outrage in the run up to International Women’s Day.

Fuentes trip to Club Sombras came as his boss, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned prostitution to coincide with International Day Against Sexual Exploitation and the Trafficking of Women and Children in September 2020.

Police also launched a campaign that day targeting men who pay for sex.

A Tenerife court is now tasked to probe the scandal.

THE Supreme Court has locked up a man who hit a woman so hard with a takeaway container he knocked out her front teeth for two years.

Anthony Gilbert, 47, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment after he locked her up in a home and took away her mobile phone to stop her calling for help.

The domestic abuse unfolded at around 10pm on April 29 last year, the court heard. Gilbert first smashed out the woman’s front teeth with the takeaway container.

Gilbert let her out but not before following her to the bus stop and stealing her phone.

Broadway Picasso

STAR of innumerable Hollywood movies Antonio Banderas has revealed that he is starting negotiations with several Broadway companies about staging a musical in English about Pablo Picasso.

If the negotiations materialise, Banderas aims for the world premiere to be held at the Soho Theatre in Malaga, the city where Picasso was born 141 years ago.

The 62-year-old, Oscar-nominated actor is busier than ever, having recently completed 240 performances of the hit musical company, in which he starred and directed.