IRISH SUSPECT RE-ARRESTED FOR TORREVIEJA MURDER

The Guardia Civil have arrested four people, including an Irishman who was on bail, pending the investigation into his alleged murder and motorway burial of a friend in La Siesta, Torrevieja, in 2018.

During the arrests the police seized almost 90 kilos of drugs that were being sent, disguised as car parts, in packages to the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States.

The investigation by the Civil Guard in Paiporta (Valencia) places Wayne PW, who was free on bail at the time, as the leader of an organisation based in Torrevieja, that was sending drugs to the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States through parcel companies.

The parcels were identified as containing vehicle parts and sent from automotive companies that turned out to be fictitious.

A total of 89 kilos of hashish and marijuana were found in different packages intercepted at a parcel transport company in the Valencian town of Picanya, at Barajas airport in Madrid and in Wayne's home, where a pistol and silencer and a quantity of ammunition was also seized.

The alleged murderer of the Irish drug dealer, Carl Carr, in September 2018 in Torrevieja has now been accused of drug trafficking, belonging to a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons. Carr’s murder is said to have been over a suspected “love triangle” after which he was beaten to death, before his body was dumped by the AP7 motorway, between Benijofar and Algorfa. His remains were eventually found nearly five months after he went missing.

GUARDAMAR’S 10TH CENTURY RÁBITA REOPENS TO THE PUBLIC

La Fonteta, site of an ancient Phoenician port city, in Guardamar, has resumed guided tours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in a bid by the municipality to diversify sun and beach tourism and publicise one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in the Mediterranean.

The site is a peculiar archaeological complex, a cultural landscape built in a pine forest, with the sand dunes having made it possible to "freeze" this Phoenician settlement from the 8th century BC, with a defensive wall with turrets and the remains of houses, one of the best preserved in the southeast of the peninsula, and a 10th century Caliphate rabita, one of the few conserved in the Peninsula.

Torrevieja To Have Largest Tarmac Pump Track In The World

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Parks and Gardens, Antonio Vidal, visited the new pump track on La Siesta Park last week.

Together with the URDECON construction site manager, José Manuel Fernández, and the technical director of the construction of the Pump Track, Christian Tidow, they were keen to see, first-hand, the progress.

Tidow said that “when complete we will have the largest fully tarmacked track in the world, a pioneer in Spain. Once it is finished, it will have twice the surface area, allowing fans of any roller sport to use and enjoy the track”.

La Zenia Traffic Study to Direct Future Road Plans

The Department of Infrastructures in Orihuela has carried out a study of traffic, mobility and parking in La Zenia in order to guide traffic reorganisation projects in the coming years.

According to the councillor, Ángel Noguera, the study focused on determining "the possibilities for decongesting traffic at the N-332 roundabout, improving internal circulation, as well as improving accessibility and pedestrian and bicycle traffic at the same time that illegal parking is discouraged”.

The study identified the need to simplify traffic movement in the area to the north of Avenida de la Playa, so that the pavements can be widened to improve accessibility for pedestrians, in addition to improving signage.