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” Veselin Vlahovic, 40, was in a top security jail in Madrid last night after a judge ruled that proceedings should start for his [...]
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 1000 companies
Preliminary damages estimated to be in the millions of dollars
According to IT security firms Panda Security and Defence Intelligence, the Mariposa botnet, a massive network of [...]
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 in which he compared a jailed Eta member to South African Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.
Batasuna is the political wing of the militant [...]
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 Spain then took a ferry to North Africa in 2009.
She left them with her new husband´s family and returned to [...]
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 relief of his wife and five children.
Mr Cockshutt, of Brandesburton, near Hornsea, was stabbed to death in an apparent bungled burglary [...]
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 for over a year before he was captured on Friday as he attempted to enter the port of Dover using [...]
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 with a gun and metal bar during a robbery. Electronic goods and cash were taken.
They have not been [...]
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 villa in Costa Silencio, Tenerife, on Saturday night, in an apparent burglary gone wrong.
The retired electrician and grandfather-of-nine had been [...]