Crime/Incidents news & information for Almería

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy's killer could become the first woman in Spain to be sentenced to permanent prison subject to review now that she has been found guilty of the murder in February 2018.

A BRITISH paedophile who abused children in his family over a 44-year period has been arrested in Albox (Almería province) after being on the run for an undetermined length of time.

SELF-CONFESSED killer of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz Ramírez and ex-girlfriend of the victim's father, Ana Julia Quezada, is due to appear in court again today (Monday) for a further hearing.

ALMERÍA schoolboy Gabriel Cruz's killer has written an open letter from prison saying the eight-year-old's death was 'an accident' and begging for forgiveness.

VALENCIA'S fallera queens and their entourages opened the city's spectacular March festival yesterday (Tuesday) with their usual procession, but this time each of them carrying a white fish in memory of eight...

SPAIN'S interior minister struggled to hold back tears when Patricia Ramírez gave him eight-year-old Gabriel's blue scarf as a thanks for his ongoing support.

POLICE in the provinces of Almería and Burgos have reopened the case of the death of Ana Julia Quezada's four-year-old daughter in 1996, which at the time was considered 'accidental'.

MISSING eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz Ramírez was strangled on the day he disappeared, on February 27, according to a post-mortem.

MISSING Gabriel Cruz Ramírez's parents have urged everyone to 'flood the internet with little fish' so that if their eight-year-old son is out there, he will know everyone is thinking of him.

A PROPERTY owned by a relative of missing Gabriel's mother's stalker has been searched in the latest development in the search for the eight-year-old who vanished on February 27 whilst walking to a...

A COURT in Almería has held that an employee who committed suicide after a row with a customer died in a 'work-related accident', meaning his next of kin is entitled to claim compensation.

A FARM worker who filmed himself jumping into a pig-pen and flattening 79 piglets has been sentenced to 15 months in prison on top of the compensation he has already handed over.