24 Jul, 2009 @ 11:22
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Our Harley holiday ruined

A GROUP of British motorcyclists have been robbed while on holiday in Andalucia.

The seven bikers, who are members of the Javea Harley Davidson Motorcycle Club, all had valuables stolen from their bikes while parked in a Ronda car park.

As well as camping equipment, they also had a camera, tools, documentation, a leather jacket and a bag of gifts for relatives stolen.

“It is amazing that this happened,” said Nick Findlay, a local English resident. “The bikes were parked in such a public place that somebody must have seen the thefts taking place.”

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

4 Comments

  1. it seems lately that ronda should be avoided untill someone maybe the mayor realizes that the town survives on tourism from all over the world, and reading twitter and other sites lately it is getting a lot of bad press.

  2. Franco, if you avoided towns because of crime you’d go nowhere!

    These crimes happen all the time. We’re only hearing about “The Ronda Crime Wave” because Paul Whitelock keeps wandering about his home patch looking to fill the website with something lol.

  3. Robbed in Ronda, mugged in Mijas, mobbed in Marbella, beaten in Benalmadena, traumatized in Torremolinos, b******d in Burgos and f****d in Fuengirola. I’ve been everywhere, man.

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