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Marbella Times
The arrest of Maximiliano Bonilla-Orozco at his home in Venezuela's third largest city of Valencia on Sunday was announced, perhaps not coincidentally, during a visit by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. After a five-hour meeting at the presidential palace, Santos thanked Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez for the "welcome gift" of capturing "a very high-value" drug trafficker "who has caused terrible damage to our country." Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami said Bonilla-Orozco, 39, would be extradited to the United States, where he was charged with drug trafficking in a 2008 indictment in a New York court. The United States accuses Bonilla-Orozco of trafficking several tons of cocaine from Colombia to the United States, and transporting more than $25 million in drug-related...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Monday, 28 November 2011
Police probe Gold Coast shooting
Police say a man shot at Robina on Queensland's Gold Coast had links to an outlaw motorcycle gang. A man fired several shots outside a house at Robina about 10:00pm (AEST) on Saturday night, injuring a 25-year-old man. The man was shot in the shoulder and is in the Gold Coast Hospital. Police say his injuries are not life-threatening. Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson says police are still searching for the assailant. He says some of the bullets struck cars and houses. "[The offender] was targeting a particular person, and that person received some injuries from the those gun pellets," he said. "The information we have from witnesses is that there were a number of shots fired. "The victim has an association with an outlaw motorcycle group but he's not a member himself. "At...
SCOTLAND'S failure to tackle the scandal of sex trafficking is exposed in a damning report today.
Baroness Helena Kennedy believes sex-trafficking victims are being let down by Scots law The report demands a crackdown on the organised crime gangs behind the vile trade and lifts the lid on how the victims of trafficking and exploitation have been let down.Leading human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, who wrote the report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is critical of the Scottish government, the police and other law enforcement agencies.The report looks into all aspects of human trafficking but focuses explicitly on "commercial sexual exploitation".A source close to the inquiry said last night: "This is Scotland's...
Marvel character, Erik Lensherr a.k.a. Magneto, has apparently infringed the copyright of the King of Spain
Marvel character, Erik Lensherr a.k.a. Magneto, has apparently infringed the copyright of the King of Spain in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, with the Zarzuela Palace claiming the X-Men villain's alternate costume is identical to the military uniform worn by King Juan Carlos.Representitives for the Zazuela Palace have contacted the Spanish distributor of the game in the region, Koch Media, to warn them of possible copyright infringement.This isn't the first time the Spanish Royal's has stamped their feet over the strong resemblences, as Marvel faced a similar dispute when Magneto first donned the uniform in The Pulse: House of M Special X-Men ...
New ecstasy fears after two dead and one seriously ill following club weekend
The clubbers, aged 20 and 21, died within hours of each other at the same hospital after attending separate dance music events at Alexandra Palace in north London over the weekend. Another 20-year-old man, also thought to have attended an event at the venue, is also being treated at the same hospital where he is said to be in a serious but stable condition. Last night Scotland Yard issued a special appeal to any young people who may have taken drugs at or before either of the events to seek immediate medical attention amid fears dealers may have been peddling an ultra-strong batch. It comes just a week after the charity Drugscope, which monitors trends in underground the drug trade, warned of an alarming rise in the popularity of ecstasy which dominated the 1990s rave scene but fell...
Ecstasy alert after club deaths
wo young clubbers suspected of taking ecstasy died after separate dance music events at London's Alexandra Palace, police said. The men, aged 20 and 21, were admitted to a north London hospital on Sunday and were pronounced dead within seven hours of each other. The 21-year-old is thought to have attended an all-night party called Bass Culture, which started on Friday and continued into Saturday. The 20-year-old is believed to have attended a night called Epic, starting on Saturday night and running into Sunday. A second 20-year-old man who was also believed to have attended the event on Saturday night was admitted to hospital as well and remains in a serious but stable condition. The Metropolitan Police said the cause of the deaths and injury was yet to be established but confirmed...
Man shot in Brunswick
A gunman is on the loose after a man was gunned down in a busy Brunswick street late this afternoon. The man was shot several times outside a gym and then stumbled across the Brunswick shopping centre car park where he collapsed beside a vehicle, police say. At least six shots rang out at the Barkly Square Shopping Centre late this afternoon and the 37-year-old man was hit in the upper bo...
Friday, 25 November 2011
Bali jails Australian boy over cannabis possession
An Australian boy has been jailed for two months for possessing cannabis on the Indonesian island of Bali. The case sparked an outcry in Australia, where the media argued the 14-year-old was too young to be jailed. But Indonesian analysts hit back, criticising Australia for holding Indonesian youngsters in detention in people-smuggling cases. The teenager, who has not been named, will serve the rest of his sentence at an immigration detention centre. The jail term includes the time already served, so the boy, from New South Wales, is expected to be freed in two weeks' time. He will be deported to Australia at the end of his sentence. The boy bought a small amount of cannabis from a dealer on the island - a crime punishable by up to two years in jail. But the court treated him...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Police were in dark over foreign axe killer living in UK
COPS did not know an East European axe murderer was living in the UK until he caused a killer car crash, a court heard yesterday. Intars Pless, 34, hacked through a friend's throat in his native Latvia, then moved to Britain after he got out of jail. But Lincoln Crown Court heard police can only check a foreign national's record if they break the law here. So Pless's horrific crime came to light only after he drove into moped rider Valentina Planciunene, 37, while over twice the limit. Stuart Lody, prosecuting, told the court: "On the night of Valentine's Day he decided it would be a perfectly good idea to drink a very large quantity of whisky. Surprised "He and a friend spent a considerable period of time drinking whisky and driving around. "During the driving he was possibly...
Monday, 21 November 2011
SHOPPERS are deserting Yorkshire’s retailers at more than twice the rate of the national average
SHOPPERS are deserting Yorkshire’s retailers at more than twice the rate of the national average as the UK suffered its worst footfall figures since December’s Arctic blizzards, a survey has revealed.Research by the British Retail Consortium also found the North and Yorkshire had the third highest town centre retail vacancy rates last month at 12.5 per cent, marginally behind only Northern Ireland and the East Midlands among the 10 UK regions.Nationally, footfall dropped by 4.7 per cent in October as a “toxic mix” of soaring fuel bills squeezed consumers’ income levels and the eurozone debt crisis sapped confidence, the BRC said.The weak figures, partly caused by shoppers delaying buying winter clothes in the warmest October on record, came despite high levels of special offers and discounts.The...
Britons who take cocaine are destroying Colombia and killing Colombians
Britons who take cocaine are destroying Colombia and killing Colombians, the country’s president says.In an exclusive interview at the presidential palace in Bogotá, Juan Manuel Santos highlighted the price paid by the South American nation for the cocaine trade ahead of a visit to Britain later this month. Colombia is emerging from a four decade-long civil war involving both left-wing guerillas like Farc and right-wing paramilitaries, who have been funded by drug trafficking. Mr Santos, 60, said Colombia, the world centre of the cocaine trade, had suffered more than any other country in the world from the West’s insatiable appetite for the drug.He said: ‘I say that every time somebody in London sniffs coke he destroys the environment here in the tropical forests – because it stimulates deforestation...
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is pictured sitting in a plane in Zintan after his capture in Libya's rugged desert.
Photograph: Ismail Zitouni/ReutersThe man who led the fighters that captured Saif al-Islam has said that the late dictator's son tried to escape arrest by pretending to be a camel herder."When we caught him, he said, 'My name is Abdul Salem, a camel keeper,'" said commander Ahmed Amur on Sunday. "It was crazy."His unit, from Zintan's Abu Bakar al-Sadiq brigade, had been patrolling the vast southern desert of Libya for more than a month when it was given a tip-off late last week that Saif al-Islam was close to the town of Obari."We knew it was a VIP target, we did not know who," said Amur, who worked as a professor of marine biology...
T-shirt with the knuckle-duster and crossed baseball bat motif, but the T-shirt pinned to the front counter with a cartoon of the Pink Panther, bearing the logo "Staatsfeind", or "enemy of the state".
TUCKED DOWN a side street a few minutes' swagger from a drab, graffiti-covered bus station, the "Eastwear" clothes store in Zwickau has everything today's smartly dressed neo-Nazi-about-town could want.As well as shirts and bomber jackets by the leisure brand Thor Steinar favourites Fred Perry and Lonsdale – there is an extensive wardrobe for those who like their tailoring with rather more attitude, from "Hooligan" brand gloves through to "Hatewear" and "Iron Fist" sweatshirts.Last week, though, the most sinister item on show was not the T-shirt with the knuckle-duster and crossed baseball bat motif, but the T-shirt pinned to the front counter...
Thursday, 17 November 2011
UK press in dock over phone-hacking, lawyer says
Britain's entire press stands in the dock at an inquiry into media standards, said a lawyer representing victims of press intrusion and phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. David Sherborne, who is representing 51 "core participants" at an inquiry set up as the hacking scandal engulfed News Corp's British arm, said Wednesday that "tawdry" tabloids were guilty of blackmail, bribery and vilification. He said his clients had endured lies, harassment and other "despicable" actions from the press and that phone-hacking might only be the tip of the iceberg. "It is the whole of the press, and in particular the tabloid section of it, which we say stands in the dock," he said. "It is time we had change and by that I mean real change." The Leveson inquiry, due to last a year,...
Spain 10-yr debt costs to hit new high as crisis deepens
Spain will pay its highest cost of borrowing since the creation of the euro to sell 10-year debt on Thursday as the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis intensifies. The Treasury aims to sell between 3 billion euros ($4.1 billion) and 4 billion euros of a new 10-year benchmark bond that will take its 2011 borrowing to almost 90 percent of the targeted amount. France, whose yield premium over Germany hit a euro-era high on Tuesday on fears it may lose its top-grade AAA rating, is also due to sell 6-7 billion euros of debt. The Spanish auction will be the last before a general election on Sunday which is widely expected to usher the centre-right People's Party (PP) into power. With the crisis spreading to the 17-country currency's core, PP leader Mariano Rajoy will have little time to...
UK economy forecast: Eurozone crisis dampens Bank’s growth estimate
THE Bank of England warned today that the eurozone debt crisis is the “single biggest risk” to the UK recovery as it forecast a dramatically increased threat of a double-dip recession next year. Its quarterly inflation report revealed a greater chance of the economy contracting in the first three quarters of 2012, compared with its August forecasts, as eurozone and banking concerns and squeezed household budgets continue to weigh on growth. The Bank slashed its central - or most likely - growth estimate to no more than 1 per cent in both 2011 and 2012 from previous forecasts of around 1.5 per cent and 2.2 per cent respectively. The worsened prospects for the UK economy mean inflation is likely to fall far quicker than previously estimated, hitting the Government’s 2 per cent target...
Sunday, 13 November 2011
jailed for 30 years for gunning down a rival drug dealer outside Wandsworth Prison in South London
Last week Rupert Ross, son of a Kings Road boutique owner, was jailed for 30 years for gunning down a rival drug dealer outside Wandsworth Prison in South London. In the days that followed the killing – with the police on his trail and his best friend already dead in a revenge shooting – 30-year-old Ross befriended investigative journalist Wensley Clarkson and in a series of videotaped interviews talked about the murder, his privileged background and the terrifying world of drugs, guns and gangs.Holding court: Waring a T-shirt for his interview with Wensley Clarkson, Rupert Ross seemed since but described the gang world with cold relishOn the...
small-time drug dealer was tortured, killed and his body dismembered into six pieces 'behind closed doors' by a brutal drug gang
small-time drug dealer was tortured, killed and his body dismembered into six pieces 'behind closed doors' by a brutal drug gang, a court heard yesterday. Adam Vincent, 33, was shot with air rifle pellets and savagely punched and kicked in the weeks before his gruesome death. The gang then scattered his body parts in waterways across Lincolnshire, Sheffield Crown Court was told. Discovery: Adam Vincent's head, right arm and right leg were found in the River Ancholme, near Brigg in June, picturedHis severed leg was found sticking out of the water by birdwatchers at Tetney Lock near Cleethorpes on March 3 this year. After...
IT’S prison or death out there. I’ve seen people get stabbed and my friend was shot dead last year... I was lucky it didn’t happen to me
“IT’S prison or death out there. I’ve seen people get stabbed and my friend was shot dead last year... I was lucky it didn’t happen to me.”These are the chilling words of a 19-year-old Birmingham gang member who once roamed the streets of Lozells, selling drugs and fighting with rivals over territory.He has since left that dark and dangerous life behind him and is on course to become a PE teacher.Now he has helped make an award-winning film aimed at warning the next generation of the dangers of gangs.It is being shown in schools across Birmingham to children the same age he was when he became involved.Today, the teenager lifts the lid on the...
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