A British expat has been arrested in Spain after confessing to having strangled his wife with a telephone cable.
Police and council chiefs have said Warren Lyttle, 50, admitted to killing wife Lisa Jane, 49, in a phone call to the emergency services from the sixth-floor flat where they had been staying for a month near Magaluf.
Serafim Martins, arrested last May on suspicion of fraud and laundering the proceeds of sales at his textile shop chain, has been in custody ever since but at last has a chance to argue his case in court.
The investigation into millions of euros of profits that Martins failed to declare involved a extraordinarily complex network of fictitious businesses and overseas bank accounts which enable him to channel millions into offshore tax havens.
A major earthquake measuring 6.1 hit the Mediterranean between Spain and Morocco early on Monday morning and just one day after a 3.9 quake hit the Algarve.
It struck at 4.22 am, 161 km south-east of Malaga, 164 km east-southeast of Gibraltar and 62km north of the city of Al Hoceima, Morocco, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
In contrast to the political mishmash created by the recent general election, Sunday’s presidential poll shooed in a clear winner who promises to be a force for stability.
The 20th President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is expected to play a crucial role in calming the country’s current volatile situation. He could be pivotal in Portugal’s political future.
Three people have been badly injured in a head-on collision involving two cars on Saturday morning near Zoomarine, Guia, on the EN125.
Two Swedish tourists in a rental car were in a collision with a BMW driven by a British expat said to be in his 80s.
The new Director General of the Treasury, Helena Borges, has been thrown in at the deep end with demands for a clear explanation from MPs as to why Portugal’s rich people seem to be paying proportionally less tax than its hard-working families.
Finanças has selected 240 taxpayers with high incomes and millions in assets, who pay a lower personal income tax rate than expected. This is just a sample from a greater total and all can expect to be reviewed.
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale with an epicenter about 100 kilometres west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent was registered by monitoring stations on Saturday at 15:35, according to the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).
The epicenter was in the ENI-Galp ‘Gamba’ oil and gas exploration bloc although no drilling is yet taking place.
The new AeroVIP Bragança - Vila Real - Viseu - Cascais and Portimão service opened a month ago and has reported an average of 5.5 passengers per trip, considered ‘normal’ by the company’s management.
An occupancy rate of around 30% in the one 18-seater aeroplane is planned to rise to a target of 60% by the end of 2016, according to Sérgio Leal, the company’s commercial director.
