'Ex' is held over murder in Spain.A MERSEYSIDE man is the chief suspect in a murder investigation following the death of his ex-girlfriend. Twenty-year-old Avril Flanagan is believed to have been stabbed 40 times and had her throat cut. Her body was found in an apartment in Torrevieja, south of Alicante, Spain. Her former partner, Alan Daulby, 24, formerly of Blundellsands, disappeared following her death on May 29. His father passed details of his car registration to the Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. authorities. A high-speed chase by the Guardia Civil ensued 100 miles away in Oliva, near Valencia, where Daulby was eventually arrested. Irish barmaid Avril, known as Abby, was found by her mother, Barbara, who ran a bar in Cabo Roig with husband Gerry. Daulby's parents, Jackie and Alan, moved abroad three years ago after selling their home in Spinney spin·ney n. pl. spin·neys Chiefly British A small grove; a copse. [Obsolete French espinoi, from Old French espinei, thorny place, from Vulgar Latin Crescent crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. , Blundellsands, and his father's Bootle business, Advance Clutches. Daulby, an ex-pupil of St Mary's College, had dated Abby for two years but regularly returned to Crosby. It is believed the couple may have argued in previous weeks after Abby revealed she planned to return to Ireland.. CAPTION(S): Avril Flanagan |
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