5 Jul, 2019 @ 14:14
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VICTORY: British man FINALLY released without charge after being locked up with terrorists for over a YEAR near Spain’s Costa del Sol

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TRAPPED: Robert’s family were desperate to get him out of prison, where he even spent Christmas 2018

A BRITISH man locked up with terrorists for a year without charge has FINALLY been released.

Robert Mansfield-Hewitt, 51, is a free man, having been released without charge from Algeciras’ notorious Botafuegos prison.

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FREED: Robert Mansfield-Hewitt has been taken safely back across the border to Gibraltar

Locked up with ETA terrorists and murderers, the engineer – who has a PHD and is an avid poet in his spare time – was jailed over a mix-up involving 1.5 tonnes of hashish.

The Chichester man was cuffed after he stayed at a rental apartment in San Roque, where police seized the €5.5 million worth of drugs from an adjoining garage.

SPLASH: The Olive Press carried the injustice of Mansfield’s imprisonment on the front page of Issue 320

Officers were alerted to the property after a Moroccan man was seen breaking into the garage, which Robert said he never stepped foot inside.

“I feel a huge ‘welcome home’ party looming,” said Cliff Ruffle, 57, who has known Mansfield for years.

Cliff added that a ‘close friend’ had ‘driven Robert back over the border to safety, in Gibraltar.

More details to follow…

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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