Court order for homeless Brit living in Malaga airport

PUBLISHED: February 7, 2013 at 11:12 am • LAST EDITED: February 8, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Andalucia, Lead, Malaga • 6 Comments

By Kathryn Richardson

A MYSTERIOUS Brit is still causing havoc at Malaga airport despite a judge making an order to stop him going within 200m of the premises.

Homeless Carl Richard, 43, has already broken the order three times within a month of it being made and is reportedly now living under a nearby bridge.

Mr Richard, who is described as tall, slim and bearded, first entered the airport from the street in November 2010 and lived there for two years.

He quickly acquired the nicknames, ‘El F***ing’, due to his use of foul language, and ‘El Ninja’, because he dresses in black and practices martial arts in the building.

He was first arrested in November 2010 for throwing a stone at a vehicle belonging to the firm Rent-A-Car, and later in July 2011 for pouring cleaning liquid containing ammonia over a cleaner.

Mr Richard also threatened travellers with a mop stick and intimidated employees.

The order comes after Mr Richards abused a rental company worker and started smashing windows.

The magistrate dated the order from January 4 which Mr Richard broke after only ten days when he was spotted wandering around Terminal 3.

Despite being arrested several times, Mr Richard’s past is still a mystery and nobody knows exactly why he roams the area, or why he has not returned to Britain.

According to reports his family has turned up at the airport a number of times to pursuade him to return home but he refused.

The social services have also failed in their attempt to have him declared incapacitated in order to get him institutionalised.

He is one of a number of homeless people who live at Malaga airport.

There are said to be up to a dozen men living there, a number of them expatriates, who have fallen on hard times.

See similar stories here: http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/07/18/assistance-sought-for-homeless-british-expat/

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Simon

February 7th, 2013 11:27 am

His Real Name is Tom Hanks

Pedro

February 7th, 2013 1:33 pm

Maybe if he learned to speak Spanish then he could find a job and not be homeless, but no.

Fred

February 7th, 2013 3:13 pm

@Pedro, even the Spanish can’t find find a job lol. Malaga is an international airport.

peter

February 7th, 2013 8:38 pm

I don’t know if there is a sad story behind this but my first reaction is why don’t the Spanish authorities deport him if he is such a nuisance, probably for the same reason that British authorities don’t deport foreign criminals because it would infringe their human rights. He is not totally homeless if his family have tried to persuade him to return home, so one must conclude that he is either mentally ill in which case he should be sectioned for his own good or that this is the life he has chosen and must face the consequences of his bad behaviour.

Matilda

February 11th, 2013 1:10 am

My husband offered a spaniard a job at Malaga airport on condition he learned to speak english, he didn’t bother so you’re all as bad as one another Pedro!

Roger

February 11th, 2013 6:08 pm

This guy sounds cool. ‘El F***ing’, ‘El Ninja’ and threatens people just catching flights with MOPS, when not doing martial arts exhibitions… And the security have let him in for two years? This could be a miles better film than Hanks’s effort!

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