Six men accused of sexual abuse of 14-year-old girl in abandoned factory in Manresa

Prosecutors in the trial of six young men accused over an attack on a 14-year-old girl in the Spanish town of Manresa have argued they should face the lesser charge of sexual abuse instead of rape because the girl was drunk, under the influence of drugs and did not fight back.

The trial has been dubbed the Manresa Manada after the notorious case of five men who called themselves La Manada, “the wolf pack”, who were accused of raping a teenager in Pamplona but were initially found guilty of the lesser offence of sexual abuse. Last month the supreme court increased their sentences from nine to 15 years, ruling that they had committed rape.

Mother and daughter say man swindled them out of €7,000 fee to kill mother’s partner

A Spanish woman and her daughter have been arrested after going to a police station to complain that the man they hired to carry out a murder had swindled them out of the €7,000 (£6,300) they paid him.

The incident seemed to begin earlier this month, when the pair told police in Madrid that the mother’s partner had cheated them out of a total of €60,000.

Men who attacked woman in Pamplona have jail sentences increased to 15 years

The five defendants in the notorious Pamplona sexual attack case have had their prison sentences raised from nine to 15 years each after the supreme court found them guilty of gang-raping a woman at the running of the bulls festival three years ago.

The case – known as La Manada, or the “wolf pack”, after the name of the men’s WhatsApp group – shocked Spain, prompted major protests and provoked a fierce debate over the country’s sexual offences legislation.