By Cathy Elelman • Published: 11 Jun 2020 • 13:39
DETAINED: The suspect faces charges for gender violence and breaching a restraining order CREDIT: Policia Nacional Twitter @policia
A 45-YEAR-OLD man is under arrest for torching his former girlfriend’s home in what is effectively a shanty town on the outskirts of Almeria City in the early hours of Wednesday morning. She suffered minor injuries in the fire. Police tracked down and detained the suspect about three kilometres away from the burning shack in the La Goleta area in the provincial capital’s Almadrabillas park. There was a restraining order in place against the 45-year-old prohibiting him from going near his ex or from contacting her. As well as a charge for gender-based violence, the authorities have also charged him with breaching order.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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