A fire in a bungalow near the Martínez Valero stadium on Calle Ciudad de Figueres in Elche injured two residents, one of whom was admitted to Elche General Hospital for burns.

The fire began early yesterday morning, on a mattress in the basement, for reasons that the investigation have yet to determine. The fire spread throughout the building, causing the two women, one 22 years old and the other 51, to evacuate before emergency services arrived.

The Provincial Consortium Firefighters deployed a command unit, a heavy urban fire engine, a heavy and light tanker fire engine, and six firefighters from the Elche and Crevillent fire stations, including a sergeant and two corporals. They spent over an hour suppressing and extinguishing the flames before declaring the fire extinguished at 11:06 a.m.

The Cicú has deployed an SVB unit to treat a 22-year-old woman for smoke inhalation. She has sought voluntary release. The other renter, aged 51, has been admitted to Elche General Hospital with burns.

The Alicante Provincial Court has sentenced a man to six years in prison for offering 7,000 to 10,000 euros to acquaintances in exchange for the murder of his ex-partner in Torrevieja.

The defendant admitted the facts during his statement at the High Court trial yesterday, Monday 24th March, after reaching an agreement with the prosecution, granting a reduction in the initially requested sentence of 13 and a half years, despite the aggravating circumstance of family ties being applied.

Following the acknowledgement of the facts, the First Section court in charge of prosecuting the case announced an early verdict on the terms agreed upon by the prosecution and defence.

The actions in question occurred in June 2022, when the defendant promised four people between 7,000 and 10,000 euros to kill the woman he had been in a relationship with for six years in Torrevieja.

According to the prosecution, the defendant corresponded with the many persons he intended to pay to murder his wife via mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram in order to maintain greater anonymity. During these chats, he offered half the money to the alleged hitmen before they committed the crime.

The defendant’s ex-partner and victim testified at the hearing, indicating that she learnt of the defendant’s plans from one of the individuals the defendant reportedly contacted.

“She told me she had become my friend so she could know where I was at all times and that she was paid for it,” she said just before the defendant used his right to the last word to apologise and that he was “very sorry.”

In addition to the prison sentence, the plea deal included a seven-year prohibition at a distance of more than 300 metres and the termination of parental rights over the defendant’s minor daughter, whom he shared with the victim.

Three men have been arrested by National Police for threatening and abusing two young men in order to persuade them to change their testimony during a police inquiry.

The police inquiry began after a young man complained to officers that he had been beaten and intimidated by three acquaintances in order to induce him to withdraw a statement he had given to police in Benidorm on an investigation in which they were involved.

One of the attackers recorded the attack on a cell phone and threatened to use a knife to harm the victim’s buddy who was present at the time to prevent him from intervening.

Days before the incident, one of the perpetrators sent the victim many threats via a mobile messaging app, threatening to attack her if she did not change her statement. This made the victim extremely apprehensive and fearful of encountering these people on the street.

Another victim was attacked for the exact same reason

During the inquiry, authorities discovered a second complaint from another victim who had been threatened to falsify his statement before being surprised on the street and assaulted by a man who was also connected to the Benidorm investigation into the other accused.

Once all of the information about the incident had been gathered, officers from the Alicante Northern District Police Station’s Judicial Police group conducted a series of checks, which resulted in the complete identification of the three perpetrators of the first attack, as well as the perpetrator of the second victim. All of them were men aged 20 to 22.

Officers eventually discovered three of the perpetrators, who were arrested for alleged bodily harm and obstruction of justice.

Agents are working to locate and apprehend the other suspect in the event.

Following police investigations, the inmates were hauled before the Alicante Court of First Instance for duty.