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British widow whose husband, 59, was ‘killed by a neighbour with a gardening hoe’ in Spain appeals for help to pay €18,000 in legal fees

A BRITISH woman living in Spain is appealing for aid after her husband was brutally murdered with a garden hoe. Sarah Allwright is raising funds

29 Aug, 2024 @ 12:00

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

Benidorm electric scooter thieves are caught out by GPS unit tracking stolen two-wheeler 600 kilometres away

Father and son tourists who stole an electric scooter from Benidorm are tracked down by police thanks to its GPS tracker

A LA RIOJA father and son have been arrested for stealing an electric scooter while on holiday 600 kms away in Benidorm after its GPS

28 Aug, 2024 @ 23:00

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

Mayor demands extra police to bring down 'narco' mafia gang accused of making threats and burning cars over shutdown cockfighting venue in Alicante area

Mayor demands extra police to bring down ‘narco’ mafia gang accused of threats and burning cars over shutdown cockfighting arena in Costa Blanca area

THE mayor of an Alicante province town wants extra police brought in to bring down a mafia gang trafficking in drugs and running cockfights. Aspe

28 Aug, 2024 @ 19:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Man and his two sons are arrested over stabbing of his ex-partner at an ice cream parlour on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A WOMAN was stabbed at a packed Alicante ice cream parlour on Monday after a row involving her ex-partner and two grown-up sons. The 51-year-old

27 Aug, 2024 @ 22:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Body of ‘foreign’ man, 45, is found shot to death near tennis courts on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A MAN died on Monday night after being shot at least twice in an Elche area village on the Costa Blanca. The victim is said

27 Aug, 2024 @ 19:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Police discover black market octopus and other seafood being sold at restaurant on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN UNAMED Santa Pola restaurant is in serious trouble for having 35 kilos of unsourced seafood in its freezers to plate up for unsuspecting diners.

27 Aug, 2024 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Scottish minister blasts ‘balconing league table’ which mocks deaths of tourists in Spain as ‘vile’ – just days after Scot’s fatal fall from an Ibiza hotel

A GOVERNMENT minister has blasted a balconing league table as ‘vile’ and called for its website to be taken down after it celebrated the UK

27 Aug, 2024 @ 14:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: British accountant facing extradition to Spain claims he is being ‘silenced’ for ‘providing intelligence that could have foiled London and Madrid terror attacks’

A BRITISH accountant and ‘undercover agent’ claims he is once again facing extradition to Spain in order to ‘silence’ him. Paul Blanchard, 79, from York,

27 Aug, 2024 @ 12:28

Crime & Law·Lead·Tenerife

Mallorca-based captain of the tragic Mike Lynch yacht is expected to face an investigation over sinking

ITALIAN prosecutors have launched an official investigation into the Mallorca-based captain of the Bayesian yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily last week, killing

26 Aug, 2024 @ 20:53

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Warning over Booking.com scam after British tourists lose thousands to fraudsters – this is how to spot them

BRITISH tourists are warning holidaymakers after a Booking.com scam saw them lose thousands to fraudsters. Unfortunate sun seekers have seen their holiday plans ruined after

26 Aug, 2024 @ 12:32

Crime & Law

Exclusive: Norwegian expat who survived a horror axe attack on Spain’s Costa del Sol is suing doctors for ‘laughing off’ his pain and ‘shrugging him off with painkillers’

A NORWEGIAN expat has been left traumatised after a horrific axe attack in Fuengirola left him with ‘unbearable’ back injuries. Marius J, 30, was drinking

25 Aug, 2024 @ 11:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella

Spanish police officer is arrested ‘for groping a young woman’s buttocks’ at the Malaga feria

AN off-duty Guardia Civil officer will be tried for sexual assault after being accused of groping a woman’s backside in Malaga. The attack happened last

24 Aug, 2024 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are gassed and robbed in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’

British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are ‘sedated with gas and robbed’ in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’

BROADCASTER Nick Grimshaw and his 81-year-old mother Eileen were sedated with gassed and robbed while on holiday at an Ibiza villa. The former BBC Radio

23 Aug, 2024 @ 19:00

Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead

Man exploited 40 migrants by cramming them into his flat in Spain and charging €100 per month in rent

Wanted British ‘narco’, 50, is found hiding among expat community under a fake identity in Spain’s Valencia

A BRITISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Valencia province. The 50-year-old man lived under a false identity

23 Aug, 2024 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Exposed: Taxi drivers are arrested for using ‘mafia tactics’ to gouge prices at Sevilla airport

‘I thought they were going to kill me’: Taxi driver, 71, is attacked by three German police officers in Spain’s Mallorca

A 71-YEAR-OLD Mallorca taxi driver was hospitalised after a brutal beating from a group of German tourists who claimed to be police officers. Three men

23 Aug, 2024 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Watch: Police in Spain bust cocaine haul hidden among pineapple shipments

THIS is the moment police in Spain uncovered a cocaine shipment hidden among pineapples. In a statement online, Policia Nacional said the drugs had come

23 Aug, 2024 @ 07:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·Video

Slaves are freed from brothel of horrors in Madrid: Victims were ‘forced to insert sponges, take cocaine and work until they fainted’

POLICE have raided a house of horrors in Madrid where women were forced to prostitute themselves until they passed out. Policia Nacional arrested eight people

22 Aug, 2024 @ 21:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Fugitive in Spain livestreams his escape from police before being swiftly located

A VALENCIA man with five legal warrants against him- including two to send him to prison- taunted authorities via a live video stream before the

21 Aug, 2024 @ 22:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

British man threatens to blow up a house in Spain after barricading himself inside

A 48-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested in Spain’s south-east Murcia region following a three-hour stand-off with police where he threatened to blow up a

21 Aug, 2024 @ 16:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Spain investigates far-right ‘falsehoods and hate speech’ on social media following fatal stabbing of 11-year-old boy

THE Prosecutor’s Office is investigating ‘false’ and ‘hateful’ social media postings following last weekend’s murder of an 11-year-old boy in Toledo province. A 20-year-old man

21 Aug, 2024 @ 14:24

Crime & Law·Lead

Watch: Drivers in Spain are warned by police to never leave this item in their vehicle’s glove box

THE Guardia Civil has launched an awareness campaign aimed at drivers in Spain. In a video shared on social media, an officer from the force

21 Aug, 2024 @ 13:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Video

Benidorm scammers conned savers out of €339,000 with bogus claims of UK-based investment companies bringing massive monthly profits

A SCAM based in Benidorm promising instant high returns on investments has been busted by the Policia Nacional after pocketing over €339,000 since 2021. Four

21 Aug, 2024 @ 12:37

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain

A 59-year-old British expat died in an Almeria hospital on Saturday after being struck on the head days earlier by a gardening hoe. The confrontation

20 Aug, 2024 @ 17:15

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

What happened to Bernadette Cooper? Missing Irish expat vanished after securing funds to save her Costa del Sol bar in 1993 – and her nephew fears mafia involvement

Do you have information about this case? Email tips@theolivepress.es THE family of an Irish expat who vanished more than 30 years ago have launched a

20 Aug, 2024 @ 16:46

Crime & Law·Lead

Warning for tourists in Alicante after thief uses this method to steal mobile phones from holidaymakers

A CRAFTY thief has been accused of stealing mobile phones by distracting bar and restaurant terrace customers- mainly tourists- in Alicante. The Policia Nacional have

20 Aug, 2024 @ 15:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain's crime rate falls but serious sexual offences and attempted murder cases rise

British expat drug lord is arrested in Spain over cocaine, heroin and ecstasy empire

A BRITISH man has lost an extradition hearing in Spain and will face major drug trafficking charges in the UK. The National Court in Madrid

20 Aug, 2024 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Tenerife

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British widow whose husband, 59, was ‘killed by a neighbour with a gardening hoe’ in Spain appeals for help to pay €18,000 in legal fees

Father and son tourists who stole an electric scooter from Benidorm are tracked down by police thanks to its GPS tracker

Mayor demands extra police to bring down ‘narco’ mafia gang accused of threats and burning cars over shutdown cockfighting arena in Costa Blanca area

Man and his two sons are arrested over stabbing of his ex-partner at an ice cream parlour on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Body of ‘foreign’ man, 45, is found shot to death near tennis courts on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Police discover black market octopus and other seafood being sold at restaurant on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Scottish minister blasts ‘balconing league table’ which mocks deaths of tourists in Spain as ‘vile’ – just days after Scot’s fatal fall from an Ibiza hotel

EXCLUSIVE: British accountant facing extradition to Spain claims he is being ‘silenced’ for ‘providing intelligence that could have foiled London and Madrid terror attacks’

Mallorca-based captain of the tragic Mike Lynch yacht is expected to face an investigation over sinking

Warning over Booking.com scam after British tourists lose thousands to fraudsters – this is how to spot them

Exclusive: Norwegian expat who survived a horror axe attack on Spain’s Costa del Sol is suing doctors for ‘laughing off’ his pain and ‘shrugging him off with painkillers’

Spanish police officer is arrested ‘for groping a young woman’s buttocks’ at the Malaga feria

British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are ‘sedated with gas and robbed’ in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’

Wanted British ‘narco’, 50, is found hiding among expat community under a fake identity in Spain’s Valencia

‘I thought they were going to kill me’: Taxi driver, 71, is attacked by three German police officers in Spain’s Mallorca

Watch: Police in Spain bust cocaine haul hidden among pineapple shipments

Slaves are freed from brothel of horrors in Madrid: Victims were ‘forced to insert sponges, take cocaine and work until they fainted’

British man threatens to blow up a house in Spain after barricading himself inside

Watch: Drivers in Spain are warned by police to never leave this item in their vehicle’s glove box

Benidorm scammers conned savers out of €339,000 with bogus claims of UK-based investment companies bringing massive monthly profits

British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain

What happened to Bernadette Cooper? Missing Irish expat vanished after securing funds to save her Costa del Sol bar in 1993 – and her nephew fears mafia involvement

Warning for tourists in Alicante after thief uses this method to steal mobile phones from holidaymakers

British expat drug lord is arrested in Spain over cocaine, heroin and ecstasy empire

Police dismantle sex exploitation gang that abused foreign women on Costa Blanca

‘Love hug’ robbers arrested in Barcelona after multiple thefts from elderly people on the Costa Blanca

Vox mayor in small Andalucia town comes under fire after distributing 2026 calendar adorned with pictures of fascist dictator Franco

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