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A British grandmother, 69, drowned while attempting to rescue her 10-year-old granddaughter from strong currents at Cavalleria Beach in Menorca on Wednesday. The grandmother successfully brought the girl to safety but tragically lost her life, while emergency services were unable to save her.
The local lifeguard service had concluded operations on 15 October, leaving no professional assistance available at the time of the incident. The Civil Guard is leading the investigation into the drowning and will submit a report to a local court, with initial assessments classifying the event as an accidental tragedy.
The Civil Guard has launched an investigation into the incident, with a report to be submitted to a local court. Joan Palliser, mayor of Es Mercadel, visited the scene, and local officials will likely review safety measures at beaches following the tragedy.
What remains unclear — It is not yet known where in the UK the family involved in the tragedy comes from.
Grandmother drowns while rescuing granddaughter from sea off Menorca
The woman was trying to save her young granddaughter (Picture: SolarPix)
A British pensioner has drowned while trying to rescue her granddaughter from the sea on the last day of their Spanish holiday.
The 70-year-old woman died after rushing to the aid of her 10-year-old granddaughter, who got into difficulties in the water in strong currents on an inflatable float.
Her husband and daughter also tried to reach the child after she started drifting away from the coast towards a rocky area and her small inflatable turned over.
The victim’s husband brought her body to shore while other beachgoers used a rope to pull her daughter and grandchild to safety.
The tragedy happened around 1pm today at Cavalleria Beach, a cove on the north side of Menorca, where the family were enjoying the last hours of their Mediterranean vacation.
Emergency services were unable to save the pensioner (Picture: SolarPix)
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Emergency responders, including police, paramedics and firefighters, rushed to the scene after the alarm was raised, but there was nothing they could do to save the OAP.
Her husband was taken to hospital to be treated for cuts he suffered trying to save the youngster and his wife.
The child and her mum were treated for a panic attack. A police investigation into the tragedy was ongoing last night, and officers will send a report to a local court.
It is not yet clear where in the UK the family involved in the drama comes from. The British family had been staying together at a villa in Son Bou on Menorca’s central-southern coast and had been on the island for around a week.
The dead woman’s granddaughter was blown towards the area where her inflatable overturned by strong gusts of northern wind reaching nearly 30 miles an hour.
The local lifeguard service finished on October 15 so there was no professional help on hand.
The ropes other beachgoers used to help the child and her mum to safety were those that separate the rest of the beach from the protected dune area.
Joan Palliser, mayor of the municipality of Es Mercadel, which the beach forms part of, also went to the scene.
A Spanish Coastguard helicopter was put on standby after the alarm was raised but didn’t end up being needed.
The Civil Guard police force is leading the ongoing investigation, even though it is being treated as an accidental tragedy.
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October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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