Teens may be sentenced in March
THE wife of a grandfather stabbed to death in Tenerife has been told the boys accused of his murder could be sentenced next month. Patricia Cockshutt is hoping for some closure after her husband of 53 years, Peter, More...
Spanish police arrest man over Nintendo gamer hack
Police in Spain have arrested a man who allegedly stole details on thousands of Nintendo users and tried to blackmail the company. The unnamed individual obtained data on 4,000 gamers, according to Spain’s More...
Repossession Clears Mortgage
A court in Navarre, northern Spain, ruled that the proceeds from the sale of a home repossessed by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA are sufficient to clear the former owner’s mortgage debt to the bank, El Pais More...
DRUG NETWORK DISBANDED
A total of eight people have been arrested, of both Spanish and Colombian nationality, by officers from the National Police who broke up a drug trafficking organization based in the town of Roquetas de Mar. Officers More...
Spain wants to put Demjanjuk on trial
A Spanish judge has indicted John Demjanjuk on charges of being an accessory to genocide and crimes against humanity while serving as a Nazi concentration camp guard. The 90-year-old former Ohio autoworker is already More...
178 held in swoops on Spain based crime gang
Police have arrested 178 people in 12 countries in swoops on those suspected of forming part of an international crime gang with a large base in Spain, the Interior Ministry said today. Co-ordinated raids took More...
Irish arrests in Spain linked to crime empire
A man from the Republic of Ireland has been arrested with his two sons in Spain, suspected of masterminding an international drugs, guns and money laundering crime empire. The man, in his 50s, was detained in the More...
Sean Connery to be questioned in connection with corruption case
Scottish actor Sean Connery, 79, and his wife Micheline have been summoned for questioning by a Spanish court in connection with a money-laundering case, judicial sources said Friday. Connery is one of nearly 30 More...
Suspected paedophile held in Spain
A suspected paedophile on the run from police has been arrested in a bar in Spain after Brits recognised him from a TV appeal. Glen Tranter, 40, featured on the BBC Crimewatch show on Monday night. He had fled the More...
Police in Spain arrest hardened criminal!
Spanish police say they have detained a man suspected of robbing 10 pharmacies at gunpoint, taking their money and all available boxes of Viagra. Police in Madrid began receiving reports of the thefts in January. Victims More...
Spain arrests euro counterfeiters
Spanish police have smashed a counterfeiting ring that fed around 30,000 euros in forged notes into the economy each week, arresting nine mainly Spaniards and Senegalese, police said Friday. The network was “one More...
Captured burglar is Bosnian war monster Veselin Vlahovic
Police swooped on a gang of burglars targeting holiday homes on Spain´s Costa Blanca – and found they had arrested a Serbian war criminal accused of more than 100 killings. “Monster of Grbavica” More...
Massive botnet shutdown by Guardia Civil
Collaborative cybercrime investigation results in three arrests, more pending Personal and financial data compromised from massive cyber attack impacting nearly 13 million unique IP addresses, 50 percent of Fortune More...
Spain jails Basque separatist leader Arnaldo Otegi
A Spanish court has sentenced the former leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna to two years in jail for “glorifying terrorism”. Arnaldo Otegi was charged over a speech he gave in 2005 More...
Blackpool abduction flight mother is jailed
A woman who abducted her two daughters and took them to Morocco after losing a custody battle has been jailed for 10 months. Trudy Crofts, 30, of Blackpool, Lancashire, flew Carene, 13, and 11-year-old Shelby, to More...
Tenerife killers could be free in five years
Two teenagers who confessed to killing an East Riding grandfather in Tenerife could be released in five years. The news emerged as Peter Cockshutt´s body was finally flown home to East Yorkshire yesterday, to the More...
‘Most wanted’ man held at airport
A “most wanted” runaway who fled to the “Costa del Crime” was arrested by police as he tried to slip back into the UK, it was confirmed today. Jody Flynn, from Merseyside, was on the run More...
Expats arrested in Spain on suspicion of robbery
Two British men have been arrested on suspicion of holding up a supermarket in Spain. Expats Daniel Andrew Rushton and Matthew Aiden Daly, both 25, were held two days after staff at a store in Marbella were threatened More...
Peter Cockshutt’s killers could evade lengthy sentence
Two teenagers who have reportedly confessed to the murder of an East Riding grandfather at his Spanish retreat could escape justice. Peter Cockshutt, 71, of Brandesburton, was found dead in a pool of blood at his More...
Over 1,000 Britons are jailed over drugs abroad
British travellers have been warned not to get involved with drugs abroad, as figures show a large number of those detained are accused of drugs offences. Foreign Office figures for 30 September 2009 showed 1,057 More...
