Weekender Alicante North Issue 120

4 FRIDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2019
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RIDDLE OF MISSING BRIT
by Alex Trelinski
THE GUARDIA CIVIL have
found no trace of a missing
British man who was
last seen on Saturday November
23rd kayaking out
of Torrevieja marina.
Kenny McPherson’s family
fear that he may have been
carried out to sea by strong
currents and launched social
media appeals for information
on the 62-year-old Aberdeen
man.
The Scots-born offshore
survey engineer flew to the
southern Costa Blanca last
month to spend a few weeks
at his holiday property in the
Torrevieja area.
His step-daughter,
23-year-old Anna Mitchell
said:- “My mum said he
had kayaked when they had
been abroad with a tutor but
on this particular occasion
he had decided he wanted to
do a bit by himself.”
“He had just bought a
kayak and had been out on
the Friday before he went
missing just down the road
from where he was last seen.
We were unaware he was
going to go out on the Saturday
again.”
Mr McPherson’s neighbours
saw him leave with the
distinctive lime green kayak
early on Saturday November
23rd, and his car was was
left at Torrevieja Marina.
“The weather conditions
early in the morning were
good but we were told it got
bad later in the day and the
wind speed picked up around
midday and the sea turned
quite choppy,” Anna added.
TIGERS SPANISH TREK
FIVE TIGERS have arrived
at their new home in Alicante
Province, after they
were intercepted in a bad
state in a lorry by Polish
border guards.
The animals were en
route to to a Russian zoo
after an arduous journey
from Italy.
They are now based at
the Primadomus Wildlife
Refuge in Villena, which
specialises in helping exotic
by Alex Trelinski
non-domesticated animals.
Two Polish zoos gave
nine tigers temporary accommodation,
with experts
describing the animals as
“emaciated, dehydrated,
with sunken eyes, excrement
stuck to their fur,
urine burns, in a total state
of stress, and without the
will or desire to live” when
they were first discovered.