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The identity of the body found under a motorway bridge, wrapped in a tarpaulin and weighed down with rocks has been identified as that of Colin Nobes following a series of DNA tests.

Nobes was a former jail breaker and drug-runner who bragged that his extravagant lifestyle was financed by the sex industry as he owned two roadside clubs near Denia. The former car dealer was sent to prison in 1995 for handling a stolen motor cruiser and delivering stolen cars to the Channel Islands, but broke out of Winchester jail and fled to Spain to be with his wife. According to sources, two British people - Lindsey Frampton Slade and Adrian Marshall - are set to appear in a court in Denia on charges of murdering Nobes

Author: Valencia Life
Created: 2006-07-07 09:39:33 | Updated: 2006-07-15 13:24:38

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