No 753
Monday 18th - Sunday 24th Febuary, 2019
Tel: 637 227 385
TWO ARRESTED FOR HENRY RANSOM FRAUD THE CIVIL GUARD has detained two people for trying to defraud the mother of Henry Alejandro Jiménez Martín, the 20 year old man who disappeared from his home in the Orihuela Costa on New Year’s Day. The couple, a 49 year old Spaniard and a woman, a
Colombian aged 23, were arrested for fraud after demanding 2,000 euros from the mother, in exchange for the return of her son. Henry was reported missing by his mother on 2nd January after he walked out of his home during the early hours of New Years morning following an altercation with a friend. His disappearance
was publicised across the area via social media as well as hundreds of posters that were posted by his family who also appealed for information regarding his whereabouts through the local media. Hundreds of volunteers joined the security forces, helicopters and specially trained dogs, to search the beaches, gulleys, forests and ravines, but despite
their efforts over many days there were no further sightings of Henry However, two weeks after the Henry’s disappearance, a young Columbian woman contacted Henry's mother by telephone, using a blocked number, to tell her that she knew where he was. Continued on Page 2