|  The Justice ministry has awarded Dolores Vázquez, who spent 17 months in jail falsely accused of a murder that Tony Alexander King subsequently confessed to, €120,000 in compensation - substantially less than the €4 million requested by Ms Vázquez's lawyers.
Ms Vázquez was arrested in 2000, eleven months after the body of 19 year old Rocío Wanninkhof - who went missing from Mijas on the 9th October 1999 - was found on the 2nd November in Marbella.
Although no evidence implicating Ms Vázquez, who was going out with the dead girl's mother, was ever found, she was found guilty one week after her arrest - on the 19th September 2001 - and sentenced to serve 15 years and one day in jail.
She was eventually cleared after DNA evidence implicating Tony Alexander King recovered after the murder in Coín of Sonia Carabantes in 2003, was found to match traces found at the Rocío Wanninkhof crime scene, and King's subsequent confession. |
