BRIT HUNTED AFTER HIT RUN ON DIPLOMAT

A 70-year diplomat was knocked to the ground by the driver of a car with British number plates, who then fled the scene. The expat is now being hunted after the hit and run against the Belgian consul on Costa del Sol. The Belgian consul to Malaga, Claude de Hennin de Boussu Walcourt, said the hit-and-run incident came after he warned the mother of a small boy that it was not safe for her child to be playing in the car park of the Belgian consulate on the Costa del Sol. He said: "I told her to be careful because a car would be driving out of the garage. Then she began yelling and insulting me in English."

The diplomat turned away and went inside but when he emerged later a man approached with a dog on a lead and began to shout insults in English and threatened violence. A consular staff member saw the altercation and called police, but before they could arrive the man got into a car. "He got into a car with British number plates and when I tried to get him to wait until the local Civil Guard arrived, he drove at me and knocked me over."

The man was in his forties, about 5'9" and strongly built and the diplomat suffered bruises to his leg and right arm and was treated at a local clinic.