22 Nov, 2021 @ 15:06
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Decapitated head’ found by dog walker in popular expat haunt of Orgiva, near Granada in southern Spain

View of Alpujarras and Orgiva Miguel Ossorio/Flickr
View of Alpujarras and Orgiva Miguel Ossorio/Flickr

A HUMAN skull has been found in the Alpujarras region of Granada, the Olive Press can reveal.

The head – believed to be that of a female – was found by a dog, near Orgiva, on Friday morning.

According to an Olive Press source, it is now being studied by a forensic team in Granada city.

“It was the decapitated skull of a woman and it looks like she was killed,” said the expat, who lives nearby.

“Everyone is very shocked and particularly as we think it might be an expat woman who arrived here at the start of the COVID lockdown,” she added.

Sources at Orgiva Town Hall told the Olive Press that the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada is investigating the origins of the skull.

“We have received a request from the University of Medicine in relation to the matter,” a town hall receptionist explained.

The information was further corroborated by another municipal source, who asked not to be named. 

“Basically, it is very early and we have nothing more to add other than what you have been told… We are investigating the skull to see whose it is,” she said.

The Olive Press understands from sources that the head may belong to a Northern European woman.

The Guardia Civil has so far refused to confirm any details of the discovery. 

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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

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