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The true-life Galician tragedy that inspired hit Spanish movie ‘The Beasts’

THE 2022 Spanish film As Bestas, known in English as The Beasts, is a taught, almost unbearably tense thriller. It tells the story of a French couple who move to the Galicia

31 Mar, 2023 @ 16:18

Crime & Law·Entertainment·Lead

Expat stabs himself with a knife to get his wife arrested for attempted murder at their home in Spain's Mallorca

Teenage boy allegedly shoots and kills stepfather to protect mother and siblings in Costa del Sol squat house

A teenage boy has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing his own step-father in an effort to protect his mother and siblings. The grisly family drama unfolded in the early hours

28 Mar, 2023 @ 17:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Online scammer sells non-existent cut price cars to people around Spain

British woman, 64, murdered in Spain’s Orihuela in possible domestic violence case

A 64-year-old British woman was murdered in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Alicante municipality of Orihuela. Early reports on Sunday suggested that the killing may have been a domestic

26 Mar, 2023 @ 18:47

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

New evidence emerges in murder case of high-profile Brit killer Kenneth Noye

Police may reopen an investigation into how the UK’s ‘Public Enemy No 1’ was easily able to escape and live in Spain for two years. Kent Police are now studying a series

22 Feb, 2023 @ 18:30

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·National News·Premium

Vending Machine Thief Armed With Drill Caught In Special Police Operation In Spain's Valencia

Spain’s domestic violence epidemic: Woman stabbed by her partner in Valencia almost became murder victim number nine

A Colombian man has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing his partner multiple times in Valencia. A 53-year-old man was arrested at 4am in a house in the city after another

8 Feb, 2023 @ 15:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Protests break out after Spain’s latest gender-based violence saw a woman allegedly killed by her husband in La Linea murder-suicide

Protestors gathered today to express their disgust over the latest case of gender-based violence to rock Spain with the murder of a woman in La Linea. Officials and residents of nearby San

1 Feb, 2023 @ 20:15

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain’s far-right Vox uses church attacks in Algeciras to promote anti-immigration messages

LEADERS of Spain’s far-right Vox party have used the murder of a church assistant on Wednesday night in the southern city of Algeciras to promote their anti-immigration messages. ‘My condolences to the

26 Jan, 2023 @ 19:30

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Mystery Cuban man arrested in case of decapitated woman washed up in Marbella

By Anthony Piovesan and Walter Finch A Mystery Cuban called Michael has been arrested alongside a man who murdered and decapitated a Colombian expat and dumped her in the sea off Marbella.

25 Jan, 2023 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Malaga·Must Read·National News·Premium

Police investigating son who allegedly murdered mother following ‘loud argument’ in Malaga

A man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his mother in Malaga. Policia Nacional arrested the 39-year-old on Sunday after the body of his mother was discovered at her home by her

16 Jan, 2023 @ 15:00

Lead·Malaga·Premium

Watch: The mysterious case of the headless and handless corpse that washed up next to a Marbella restaurant

Around this time last Sunday, a woman was being murdered, decapitated, and her body dumped in the sea. Investigators do not even know yet if the horrific crime was committed in that

15 Jan, 2023 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Malaga

Squatter-removal firm accused of violent assault on residents they had no right to evict in Spain's Murcia|

Series of domestic violence killings set to turn December into one of the worst months on record in Spain

A SERIES of domestic violence murders of women in Spain has turned December into the month with the highest number of such deaths this year, for a total of eight. The last

29 Dec, 2022 @ 14:15

Lead·National News

Man convicted in Spain for horrific ‘Alcassar murders’ arrested in Barcelona drug den

MIGUEL RICART, who was convicted for the rape and murder of three teenagers from the Valencian municipality of Alcàsser, was arrested in a Barcelona drug den on Tuesday. Ricart was given 170

21 Dec, 2022 @ 17:48

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News·Valencia

Deranged Estepona man arrested wandering the motorway for the murder of his own mother

A DISTURBED young man has been arrested for the apparent murder of his own mother in Estepona after her body was found beaten and strangled on Tuesday. The son, 26, who is

7 Dec, 2022 @ 13:47

Crime & Law·Lead

Three males- including a minor- arrested over rape of teenage girl in Spain's Murcia

British man arrested for killing wife who several times accused him of domestic abuse in Spain’s Murcia

A British man, 69, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil in the Murcia region for allegedly killing his wife. The British couple lived on the popular expat Camposol urbanisation in the

5 Dec, 2022 @ 18:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Police fail to find dead body of escort in Madrid apartment where her client committed suicide

SPAIN’S National Police were called on Saturday to an apartment in the centre of Madrid, where they discovered a man had hung himself in his bathroom. Just two days later they were

29 Nov, 2022 @ 15:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Four defendants facing life in prison for brutal execution of Costa del Sol father as he celebrated son’s communion

FOUR defendants are facing life in jail for the 2018 execution-style slaying of a man in front of his family and friends after they had celebrated the communion of his youngest son.

31 Oct, 2022 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Dutchmen suspected of brutal Mallorca murder in Spain facing whopping jail time

One of the Dutchmen suspected of brutally killing a tourist in Mallorca last year could face up to ten years behind bars. The Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands (OM) this week

20 Oct, 2022 @ 13:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·National News

Russian Woman Arrested in Spain for Allegedly Burning Victim to Death

A WOMAN has been detained in Alicante for suspected murder. An international arrest warrant had been issued for the 40-year-old Russian by authorities in her home country and she is facing up

13 Oct, 2022 @ 16:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Man on Spain's Costa Blanca lies about being professional photographer to obtain child pornography

HORROR: Man confesses to killing his partner and hiding her corpse under cement in Spain’s Malaga

THE body of a woman who disappeared in March has finally been found buried under cement in a Malaga industrial estate. The horrifying discovery came after police arrested her ex-partner on Sunday

26 Sep, 2022 @ 13:53

Lead·Malaga

Dutch Showbizz Attends Farewell Service For Peter R De Vries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 22 Jul 2021

ARREST: Police in Spain detain suspect in shocking murder of Dutch investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries

A MAN has been arrested in Spain in connection with the slaying of Dutch investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries. Another man has been held on the Caribbean island of Curacao, with

5 Jul, 2022 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Russian man kills wife and teenage daughter and then himself in Lloret de Mar on Spain’s Costa Brava

POLICE believe a man stabbed his wife and daughter to death before hanging himself in the garden of their home in Lloret de Mar on Spain’s Costa Brava. Officers went to a

20 Apr, 2022 @ 11:00

Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain's top court orders end of height discrimination against female police force recruits

Man extradited from Ukraine to Spain to face attempted murder charge

WHILE the 110,00 Ukrainians who have found refuge in Spain will be relieved to be here, one man won’t after he was extradited from the war-torn country to face attempted murder charges

13 Apr, 2022 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

German woman accused of fatally poisoning her father arrested in Spain’s Mallorca

A 60-year-old German woman is being held in Palma after allegedly poisoning her father, apparently to get her hands on inheritance money. The woman, with initials IS, is alleged to have drugged

8 Apr, 2022 @ 14:45

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Boy, 15, shocks police with ‘cold-hearted’ account of how he killed his family on Spain’s Costa Blanca

EXPERIENCED Policia Nacional officers have been shocked by the lack of remorse shown by an Elche teenager, who shot his parents and younger brother last week. As previously reported by the Olive

18 Feb, 2022 @ 12:33

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Teen murders family & hides bodies in shed because parents turned off WiFi in Costa Blanca home

A FAMILY home in Elche was cordoned off by security forces on Friday, February 11, after the bodies of three family members were found in a shed. A 15-year-old boy was arrested

13 Feb, 2022 @ 08:05

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Skeletal remains of man and woman found in Elche ravine could be couple missing in Spain since 2019

THE skeletal remains of a man and woman discovered in a ravine outside Elche in Spain’s Valencia region could belong to a couple reported missing in 2019. The decomposed bodies were discovered

10 Feb, 2022 @ 13:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

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