A Spanish judge has frozen more than 100 properties left by the late Atletico Madrid boss Jesus Gil y Gil to his children so as to ensure the repayment of millions that went missing when he was mayor of Marbella, a city hall spokesman said Friday. As heirs of the former football boss and Marbella mayor, who died in 2004, the four children were ordered by a court in 2011 to compensate the city for illicit transfers of public money by their father between 1994 and 1999.

A court in Spain on Thursday sentenced a Bulgarian man to 20 years' custody in a psychiatric unit for beheading a British grandmother with a knife in a shop, a charity acting for her family said. The court in Tenerife sentenced Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, 29, for killing 60-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley, Matt Searl of the British charity Missing Abroad told AFP, citing the family. The charity, which aids victims of crimes overseas, was acting as a representative for Mills-Westley's children who attended the trial on Tenerife, the island where she was killed in 2011.

A Bulgarian man with a history of mental health problems went on trial Monday accused of decapitating a British woman at a shop on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife. Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, 29, attended the opening hearing of the trial at the provincial court in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on Spain's Canary Islands accompanied by his lawyer, a court spokeswoman said. "We don't know how long the trial will last," she said.