THE trial by jury began in Malaga of three men, two Colombian and one Cuban,  accused of murdering a Colombian in April 2007.
The victim’s dismembered body was found in a suitcase in El Higueron (Mijas) in November 2008, although police and the Guardia Civil did not clarify the circumstances of …

A WOMAN accused of running a brothel from a rented villa in Marbella has been acquitted. The court considered that the woman was in charge of the villa and was under the orders of another person.
Taxi driver
A MALAGA taxi driver accused of sexually abusing a passenger in October 2011 has …

A MAN, 36, was arrested in Albacete, southeast Spain, accused of the abduction and rape of several women.
In Albacete, he was a respected businessman, with a wife and children, but in Madrid, he was wanted for the abduction of one woman, raping another and several robberies.
His criminal ‘other life’ allegedly …

EIGHT people were arrested, one of them in Benalmadena, accused of committing more than 40 robberies on industrial estate in Cataluña.
In a joint operation between the Guardia Civil and the Catalan regional police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, in Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga, four properties were searched and tools, clothes used in …

A TEACHER at Malaga University has been sentenced to a year in prison and six years suspension for requesting sex from a female pupil in exchange for a pass mark.
He will also have to pay the girl €2,000 for moral damages.
The man teaches a subject in the last year of …

TWELVE people have been arrested for forcing Romanian women to work as prostitutes on the Guadalhorce Industrial Estate in Malaga.
Most are also Romanian, one of them is a minor, and nine have been remanded to prison. Six women who had been suffering threats, abuse and sexual attacks were freed in …