3 Apr, 2020 @ 13:27
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Suspected burglar in Spain jailed for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules

Guardiacivil

A MAN who was caught apparently breaking into a house has been jailed not for burglary but for breaking Spain’s coronavirus lockdown regulations. 

A judge in Arenas de San Pedro (Avila) sentenced the 19-year-old to four months in prison for the crime of serious disobedience. 

The court heard that the convicted man had been stopped three times for being out on the streets without good cause before he was finally arrested when he was allegedly in the course of a burglary. 

Guardiacivil
ARREST: Guardia Civil detained the man apparently in the course of a burglary.

He had already been arrested for breaching confinement on March 23, 28 and 29 and warned by another judge that if he did so again, he would have committed the crime of disobedience. 

Not only did the judge sentence him to four months in prison after the latest incident, but he refused to suspend the sentence, as is customary for first offenders sentenced to less than two years jail. 

According to a written sentence, the judge decided there were “sufficient indications” that the 19-year-old was taking advantage of the lockdown to commit crime. 

The man still awaits trial for burglary. 

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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