An explosive device went off on a beach in Torremolinos in the early hours of this morning without causing any injuries.The small device went off at 20 minutes past midnight on the paseo marítimo in the La Carihuela district in the top tourist destination in Málaga province, between the Aloha Puerto and Timorsol hotels. The police, as yet, have not confirmed who they think may have placed the device, but it is almost certainly to be the work of Basque terrorists ETA. They have already claimed responsibility for four small and similar devices which exploded on the Cantabrian coast in the north of the country a week ago.

Provincial Court in Málaga has sentenced a man to seven years in prison for stabbing another man in the chest and face after he refused to invite him for a drink.
It happened last April in the La Nogalera area of Torremolinos when the man, accompanied by a girlfriend, approached the victim who was reported to be drunk at the time, asking him to buy them a drink. The sentence notes the aggressor is a drug addict. He now has to compensate the victim with a total 67,500 €. His girlfriend was released without charges.

Provincial Court in Málaga has sentenced a British man to 12 and a half years in prison for killing a friend of his fathers with whom he lived in Torremolinos. The court found it proved that 41 year old C.B.C. killed the victim by hitting him over the head and stabbing him a total of 13 times, twice from the back and then 11 times face on. He then tried to hide the body in a room in the house for several days. It happened at the start of May 2006 when the man, who went under a false name, lived in the house in Los Álamos, rented by a friend of his father’s, after having come to Spain from Thailand. He claimed in court that he had hidden the body but not carried out the killing. The body was not discovered until the 24th of the month.The murderer was also ordered to pay 150,000 € compensation to the victim’s family.The unanimous sentence from the jury in the case came after they heard that the man had already been sentenced to life in prison in Britain for a homicide and arms trafficking.