28 Aug, 2025 @ 10:15
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‘Healer’ arrested in Spain’s Pontevedra for ‘curing’ women with intimate romps

Assassins waited until 'Brit finished playing football' before gunning him down and then torching the getaway car on Spain's Costa del Sol

A self-styled healer in rural Galicia has been arrested after allegedly telling patients they needed to have intimate relations with him to be cured.

The 55-year-old, from the Paradanta area of Pontevedra, posed as a santero – a spiritual healer who used rituals, spells and herbs – but allegedly added a disturbing twist to his ‘treatments’.

According to the Guardia Civil, he convinced vulnerable patients that they were ‘possessed by a spirit’ and claimed the only way to banish it was through intimate physical contact with him.

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Police swooped on the man after an investigation by the judicial unit in Tui. He has since appeared before a judge in Ponteareas accused of indecency offences.

The court released him on bail, pending further inquiries.

The bizarre case has shocked locals, many of whom had sought him out believing in his supposed healing powers.

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Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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