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Castell siege gunman to serve more than nine years
By m.p. - Oct 31, 2007 - 6:07 PM
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Defence and prosecution have reached agreement in the case of the gunman who was arrested after an 18 hour police siege of a house in Castell de Ferro last year.
Ideal newspaper reports that Francisco Antonio M.M., also known as El Kiki, will spend nine and a half years in prison for a number of offences, including attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons.
The paper says the agreement was reached last Friday, and means the trial due to take place in the provincial court, where the prosecutor was asking a 20 year prison sentence, will not now go ahead.
The siege came after a shooting two weeks earlier, when the suspect injured his ex girlfriend with a shotgun blast aimed at her husband, and later fled to a friend’s house in the Romeral area of Castell.
It ended in the early hours of 31st October 2006, when the GEO Special Operations Group decided to move in after a night of negotiations had proved fruitless.
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