US Murder
A man has been charged with murder, hours after prominent Spanish
golfer Celia Barquín was
found dead on an Iowa golf course.
Barquín, 22, won the European Ladies’ Amateur championship in July and
was a top athlete at the
Iowa State University.
Golfers at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames discovered an unattended
golf bag on the course early
on Monday.
Barquín was found in a pond with several stab wounds to her head, neck
and upper body
Police in the city of Ames said they had determined that Barquín died
following an assault.
Collin Daniel Richards, also 22, has been charged with her murder.
At a court appearance yesterday authorities said he is believed to be
homeless, and that the crime
was “random”.
Originally from Puente San Miguel Barquín was finishing her degree in
civil engineering this
semester.
Wistleblower
A court ruled yesterday against extraditing Herve Falciani, a former
HSBC analyst who leaked
documents alleging widespread tax evasion, to Switzerland.
The National Court said in a statement that it had already rejected
his extradition in a previous case
in 2013, adding there is no equivalent in Spanish law of the crime of
“aggravated financial
espionage” for which he was convicted in Switzerland.
The court argued that the crime “differs substantially with the
Spanish offences that can be
considered most similar, like ‘disclosure’ of secrets’.”
Falciani was arrested in Madrid in April on his way to a conference on
the need to protect
whistleblowers and released on bail.
Trapped Workers
Emergency services in the capital say at least five construction
workers have been injured and two
more were trapped late yesterday after scaffolding in a luxury hotel collapsed.
Madrid’s official emergency service said on Twitter that wrought iron
work on the sixth floor of
central Madrid’s Ritz Hotel collapsed shortly after 4 p.m.
The service says firefighters were working to pull at least two
trapped people out of the site.
one of the workers was reported as being seriously injured.
Rain Surfing
And Video has emerged of a Tourist surfing .. naked down a street in Benirdorm
In the video bystanders can be heard chanting ‘Get ’em off’ as a guy
takes the plunge and hurtles
down the road.
Dave McQueen who shot the video said “The man was seen next day –
covered in bruises.