Bodies found
A body recovered off the coast in Tenerife has been confirmed as that of missing British woman Amy
Gerard.
The 28-year-old, originally from Cleethorpes, was last seen outside an Irish bar in Puerto de la Cruz
early on 30 November.
She had been working at the island’s Loro Parque marine zoo.
The charity The Lucie Blackman Trust said it was “saddened to announce” DNA testing results had
confirmed the body was Ms Gerard’s.
She was found in the water by search teams on 4 December.
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office earlier confirmed it was assisting the family of a British
woman in Tenerife.
Meanwhile
THE Guardia Civil has confirmed that a body found yesterday near El Campillo in Huelva belongs to
missing teacher Laura Luelmo.
The 26-year-old teacher from Zamora disappeared last Wednesday and sparked a town-wide search,
featuring 200 volunteers.
Laura’s body was found by a local resident around four kilometres outside of the town.
The search for clues has begun in the area as a specialist unit of the Guardia Civil are attempting to
piece together how Ms. Luelmo died.
Franco
Spain’s supreme court yesterday ruled it would not paralyze the exhumation of former dictator
Francisco Franco after his descendants lodged an appeal against the government’s decision to remove
his remains from a vast mausoleum where they are currently interred.
Following two and a half hours of deliberation, the court dismissed the family’s request to block the
decree ordering the exhumation of Franco’s body from the basilica of the Valley of the Fallen on the
outskirts of Madrid.
Opinion Poll
SPAIN’S far right Vox party could form part of the national government if an election was held
tomorrow, a new poll has revealed.
The PSOE would win the most votes, but it would have to form a coalition with Podemos and others to
get the majority needed to form a government.
However the conservative Partido Popular could also form a government by creating a pact with the
centre-right Ciudadanos and far-right Vox.
While the next general election is not scheduled until 2020, some 47.2% of Spaniards think current
prime minister Pedro Sanchez should call a snap vote in March, according to the survey.