Joanne Lees and boyfriend Peter Falconio attacked in Outback in 2001 Bradley Murdoch murdered Peter, dumped body, and assaulted Joanne

The 43-year-old has returned on a mission to honour Peter Falconio - who was shot dead - with a roadside memorial to help warn travellers of the potential dangers of the outback, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Ms Lees, who works as a social worker in her hometown of Huddersfield, was involved in one of the greatest crime mysteries to be played out in the Australian outback where Bradley Murdoch executed her boyfriend on July 14, 2001.

Joanne Lees was touring Australia with boyfriend, British backpacker Peter Falconio, in their orange VW Kombi campervan when he was murdered in the outback on July 14, 2001

However, she has since returned and has been living quietly in Sydney and Canberra since May.

Back in August this year, it is reported Ms Lees met with Aboriginal elders in Ti Tree, 200km north of Alice Springs, to discuss a memorial and the Aborigines also agreed to continue to look for the remains of Peter Falconio.

Ti Tree was the last place her and Mr Falconio watched the sunset together and she does not want the memorial at the murder site near Barrow Creek because it was too painful.

The murder took place while the couple drove their orange VW Kombi van near Barrow Creek in Australia's vast outback. His body has never been found

In her trip to Ti Tree, Ms Lees was accompanied with Libby Andrew, the former police officer who stayed with her in the aftermath of the 2001 murder.

During the trip she also met with Gwen Brown, a former officer aid who was one of the first officers on the crime scene, and met for the first time with Aboriginal couple Pam Brown and Jasper Haines.

Ms Brown and Mr Haines provided pivotal testimonies at Mr Murdoch's trial to help sentence him to jail.

The funds will be raised in an an exclusive, one-day sale of Aboriginal Art in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Women's Centre on October 28, with the sculpture to be a car-sized bird called 'Falcon Dreaming'.

Ms Lees' art event is supported by 2015 Australian of the Year anti-violence campaigner Rosie Batty and will be opened by the British High Commissioner.

The trip to Australia is only the second time she has been back since 2001, when Ms Lees and Peter Falconio, who was 28 at the time, were touring Australia in a VW Kombi campervan when they were ambushed as they drove north to Alice Springs by Interstate drug runner and trucker Bradley Murdoch.

Tough: Ms Lees, now 42, left, was at the centre of a global media storm after surviving the attack that left her boyfriend Peter dead. Her evidence in court, right, helped convict drifter Bradley Murdoch

Trauma: Since Mr Falconio's murder in the Australian outback Ms Lees, who was living in Brighton at the time has moved back to West Yorkshire and forced a career as a social worker for Kirklees Council

Horror: Recalling the night Mr Falconio (left) was killed, Ms Lees told the court they had been followed by a four-wheel drive vehicle when the driver signalled them to stop due to an apparent problem with the exhaust

Murder: It was then Mr Falconio got out of the VW to talk to the man who had pulled up behind them that she heard what she thought was a shot. The stranger appeared at the side of the vehicle and dragged Ms Lees out

Although she escaped Murdoch's attempts to hunt her down by hiding in the Outback, near Alice Springs, she then found herself a prime suspect for the murder even though Murdoch's blood was discovered on her T-shirt. The drifter was eventually found guilty and is currently serving a 28-year sentence.

In the ensuing court case, Joanne recounted how she and Mr Falconio had been followed by a four-wheel drive vehicle, the driver of which signalled them to stop because of an apparent problem with the exhaust.

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In the days after the incident, in which Miss Lees has told of escaping from her assailant's vehicle and hiding in nearby bushland until he drove away, her story was greeted with scepticism by Aboriginal trackers looking for clues that might have supported her account of the stranger who turned her holiday trip into a nightmare.

That sceptism grew to the point that a Facebook page has been set up entitled Bradley Murdoch Deserves a New Trial. It includes comments such as 'poor Brad is serving time for a crime he didn't commit.'

Joanne Lees herself has admitted she lied to the court during Murdoch's trial.

The fact that she had been having a sexual relationship with an Irish backpacker called Nick Riley before she and Mr Falconio set off to drive through central Australia had to be dragged out of her - as did her confession that she had sent an email to Riley in the days after Mr Falconio's disappearance, expressing her hopes of meeting up with the Irishman in Berlin.

In order to keep her flings with Riley a secret, he used the name 'Steph' in their email correspondence. She initially told the court that she didn't know who Steph was, but later admitted it was a pseudonym for Riley.

That cover-up, perhaps Miss Lees' attempts to avoid the embarrassment of having to admit she had been cheating on Mr Falconio, played a relatively small part in the discrepancies that had arisen in her account of what has sometimes been described as 'The Incident at Barrow Creek'.

But there were emails, she has admitted, that she had deleted, because her accounts had become full and she had to clear them.

She has told how she and Mr Falconio smoked marijuana during their trip through the outback before they were flagged down and attacked.

Her story also raised questions which have refused to go away.

Her description of her attacker did not match Murdoch, who friends said had a crewcut at the time of the incident. His height was much taller than what Miss Lees had described. And perhaps Murdoch's most distinctive feature, his mother once told the Mail, was his missing front teeth, the result of eating too much chocolate.

Her attacker's dog, she said, was brown - while Murdoch's dog was a dalmation, with its distinctive black dots.

And it would have been impossible for her to clamber into the back of a vehicle that Murdoch owned because his cabin was sealed - with no access to the rear.

Miss Lees responded in court by saying she might have been mistaken and had probably been thrust into the rear of the vehicle through the side canvas. But she would not have known that was not possible either, because underneath Murdoch's canvas was metal trellis-work to deter thieves.

Aboriginal trackers brought to the area the day after the incident could find no sign of a dog in the area Miss Lees said she had hidden. Dog owners have constantly pointed out that after being let out of a vehicle after many miles the first thing will do is urinate or more. And why didn't the dog sniff her out - many doubters have asked.

There is little doubt that Mr Falconio was murdered and Joanna Lees assaulted by a third party at Barrow Creek - Miss Lees' knees were scraped and her wrists were still bound with handcuffs made from cable ties. Mr Falconio's body has never been discovered.

Murdoch's supporters claim that the DNA found on Miss Lees' T-shirt and which had been the prosecution's strongest point against the drug-runner was highly questionable - if she had struggled with her attacker so violently as he sat on her and not only bound her hands but tried to tie her legs, his DNA would have been all over her. But there was just that speck.

However, the court heard all of the evidence and was satisfied Bradley was the murderer.

It was when Mr Falconio got out of the VW to talk to the man who had pulled up behind them that she heard what she thought was a shot. Then that stranger, with his long dark hair and moustache, appeared at the side of the vehicle and dragged her out.

She fought, bit and scratched at the man on the ground before she was thrown into the front cabin of his vehicle.

As he attended to something at the rear of the VW she told police, she scrambled over the front seats of the man's van into the rear, before dropping to the road and dashing into the darkness of the roadside bushes.

She remained there for five hours as the man and his dog came looking for her before he went away and she found the courage to run to the road and wave down a passing truck and raise the alarm. Mr Falconio's body has never been found.

The court hearing in Darwin, northern Australia, saw the brutish 6ft 4in rogue, who in his earlier years had been convicted of causing a death by dangerous driving and had been jailed for a gun offence, sentenced to life in jail after a speck of his DNA was found on Joanne's t-shirt.

But Joanne is serving her own sentence, for she must live with the memories of the tragic incident.

For the last eight years, she has lived away from the public eye in a two-bedroomed terraced house in Berry Brow, Huddersfield, a working-class village blighted by high unemployment and soaring crime rates.

Instead, Joanne has thrown herself into her work. When she returned to normal life after her boyfriend's death, she vowed to go back to college, and studied Sociology at Sheffield University.

Now she works as a social worker at the Directorate for Children and Young People for Kirklees Council.

Her life has become work and sleep, and she does not appear to have family close by. Her mother Jennifer tragically died of lupus only a year after her boyfriend's murder in June 2002. Her stepfather Vince James, whom she used to be very close to, now rarely sees her. Her only half-brother, Andrew James, is not close to her.

In an interview with Woman's Day last year, Vince James said: 'Nine times out of time she won't answer the phone, it's difficult to get hold of her, I don't know why. She works full-time, she's a social worker of some sort. I don't see her as much. She goes to bed early, she gets up early in the morning, it's difficult to see her. You'd have to ask her why.'

Joanne's quiet lifestyle is a far cry from a decade ago when she seemed to embrace the limelight, releasing a book called No Turning Back. However, said the book was simply to help other victims like her.

She has now wound down her two writing and book publishing businesses - Joanna Lees Ltd and Joanna Rachael Lees Ltd. Their last accounts were in April 2014 and dissolved the same year with assets of £20,000 [$37,500].

If she was wealthy as a result of the book, Joanne didn't flaunt it. She drives a simple four-door Corsa and her modest two-bedroom house is plain.

She has remained in touch with the Falconios, who live just seven miles away in the pretty village of Hepworth, west Yorkshire, close to where the BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine is filmed.

Peter's parents Joan and Luciano have struggled to move on from their son's death and it still haunts his siblings - brothers Nick, Paul, and Mark. Now, neighbours say, Joan and Luciano spend increasing amounts of time in Luciano's birth country, Italy.

The last public act either Joanne or the Falconio family took part in is to petition for a lasting memorial for Peter to be put in Alice Springs - which has not materialised - and Joanne's previous relationship with her local newspaper has petered out.

Joanne has recently had to endure a number of false claims in the last few years, including a cruel campaign by Vienna-based Dr Keith Allan Noble, who claims that Joanne is the murderer and even put up a £25,000 [$46,000] reward poster around Alice Springs appealing for information which would lead to her arrest.

Dr Noble recently claimed: 'Murdoch was set up. It was a show trial. So-called evidence was manipulated, other evidence was withheld from the trial. There was not one shred of incontrovertible evidence presented at the trial that proved guilt, or proved a murder took place.'

In an exclusive interview in his Alice Springs prison five years ago Murdoch, then 55, told the Daily Mail that he had been set up, despite a speck of his blood being found on Miss Lees' t-shirt.

'It's her false account against me that has led to me being in here,' he said in the visitor's area. 'They haven't found Mr Falconio, yet they've convicted me of murdering him.

'The police have had all the time in the world to find the body of Mr Falconio. They say I've hidden 'out there' - 10 long years to search while I, according to their case, had just hours to hide him. Show me the body. Show me the body of the man I am supposed to have murdered.'

Modest: Ms Lees now lives modestly in Huddersfield, where her former boyfriend was also from. She now works as a social worker at the Directorate for Children and Young People for Kirklees Council

Controversy: She attracted criticism at the time for her demeanour in the aftermath of the attack, wearing a 'cheeky monkey' top for a press conference to appeal for the man who at that stage was thought to have abducted her boyfriend to give themselves up

Ambush: The young couple were enjoying a trip around Australia when they were ambushed and Peter was apparently shot dead

Court appearance: Ms Lees pictured in 2005 leaving the the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin, where her evidence helped to convict drifter Bradley Murdoch of murder

Jailed: Ms Lees said she fought, bit and scratched at the man on the ground before she was thrown into the front cabin of his vehicle. She hid in the outback in the dead of night for five hours as the man searched for her. Pictured: Drifter Bradley Murdoch whose DNA was on Ms Lees' t-shirt, was jailed for 28 years for murder

Outback attack: The scene near Ti Tree in the Northern Territory near to Alice Springs, Australia, where Mr Falconio and Ms Lees were ambushed by a violent gunman

Vehicle: The VW Kombi belonging to Ms Lees and her British boyfriend Mr Falconio which was impounded as an evidence, pictured at the Northern Territory Supreme Court for his murder trial Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005

Joanne, for her part, refrains from ever commenting on the tragedy she so narrowly escaped from. She has no social media presence and given up even using her previous monikers, Daisy Bell and Daisy Lees.

In her book No Turning Back, now available for one penny on Amazon, she said her only reason to gain publicity was to help other victims, adding: 'The book is for me, my family, the Falconios, for Pete - and for anyone who has been the victim of violent crime.'

One of the UK's leading forensic psychologists Dr Ian Stephen - who has studied serial killers and was the chief adviser on the ITV hit detective series Cracker - says that it's not uncommon for a victim to suffer years later.

The consultant forensic clinical psychologist said: 'You find some people become traumatised later in time. At the start, it doesn't seem to affect them, they carry on as normal. It's only later in life, something else can trigger the memories.

'It's a form of depression. Something triggers that reality to come back. It gets them thinking about things and they start having regrets. I've come across a lot of people with afterthoughts like I wish I had done this or that. It's almost a wistfulness.

Memorial: Meanwhile the family of Mr Falconio have finally placed 'a most fitting' memorial to him 15 years on at a secret spot in Australia. Mum Joan told how the new memorial will help ease their heartache.

Remembrance: Mr Falconio's mother Joan told MailOnline: 'We want to keep it private, we are a very close family, and we will not be saying exactly where it is or what form it is. But we're happy with it.'

'They become self-contained and detached from people and life. It also locks away the feelings that are negative so that they do not have to face them. Whereas their previous presentation of normality is like a mask.

'If it makes them depressed, you need to go and talk things through. Psychotherapy is all about talking and remembering the past. They need therapy to help bring them back to the past and get all of those feelings in perspective. It's overwhelming, you get pre-occupied, it's a weight on your shoulders.'

Meanwhile the family of Mr Falconio have finally placed 'a most fitting' memorial to him 15 years on at a secret spot in Australia.

Mum Joan told how the new memorial which they have campaigned tirelessly for will help ease their heartache.

Murderer: The court hearing in Darwin, northern Australia, saw the brutish 6ft 4in rogue, who in his earlier years had been convicted of causing a death by dangerous driving and had been jailed for a gun offence, sentenced to life in jail after a speck of his DNA was found on Ms Lees' t-shirt

She said: 'We're very pleased we have a special memorial to Peter after all this time. It has recently been placed in Australia. It is most fitting for our son, we chose it but have not seen it yet.

'We are hoping to visit it one day but we don't know if it will be possible, not because of the expense but because of our age and health.'

The family have chosen not to share details of their commemorative gesture with the world.

Joan explained: 'We want to keep it private, we are a very close family, and we will not be saying exactly where it is or what form it is. But we're happy with it.'

She and husband Luciano, who have three other sons, all live in the same village of Hepworth, near Huddersfield, West Yorks.

Joan added the family remain friends with Ms Lees.

Alone: Ms Lees wrote a book No Turning Back in the aftermath of the violent attack that killed her boyfriend but has now wound down those companies

New career: At the time, she said: 'The book is for me, my family, the Falconios, for Pete - and for anyone who has been the victim of violent crime.'

Close: The Falconios told MailOnline they remain close to Ms Lees 15 years on. Mum Joan added: 'We're doing alright, we're okay as a family. We're still in contact with Joanna, we get on, we still see her.'

Justice: His parents Luciano and Joan Falconio, pictured at the Supreme Court in Darwin, October 2005, to see their son's then-alleged murderer stand trial

Joan, speaking exclusively to MailOnline ahead of the anniversary, told of their relief they had won the long battle to erect a memorial.

The family with Joanne's support had petitioned for a tribute to be placed in Alice Springs after failing to be granted permission from the Town Council. They called on Megan Hunt, British Ambassador in Australia, who helped it become a reality.

Joan, speaking from her comfortable detached home which she shares with youngest son Mark, 36, explained: 'Megan Hunt helped us to do this. Without her it may not have happened so we are very grateful. The memorial has gone up in time for the anniversary of Peter's death.'

She added: 'We're doing alright, we're okay as a family. We're still in contact with Joanna, we get on, we still see her.'

Barcelona 4-0 Deportivo: Rafinha, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi among the goals as hosts romp to victory

Barcelona eased to a comfortable win over Deportivo in La Liga
Rafinha opened the scoring for the home side in the 21st minute
The Brazilian doubled the Catalans' lead just nine minutes before half-time
Luis Suarez put Barca out of sight before the interval at the Nou Camp
Lionel Messi came off the bench to score the hosts' fourth
Deportivo finished the match with 10 men following the dismissal of Laure

It took three minutes and three touches, and substitute Lionel Messi was back in the old routine a month after his last game and just in time to take on Manchester City on Wednesday.

Barcelona's fit again No 10 got their fourth goal in a 4-0 win over Deportivo in which Luis Suarez also scored. While City had to roll their sleeves up against Everton, Barca strolled through this one.

Messi came on at minute 55 to the loudest cheer of the afternoon. He took a couple of easy touches deep in midfield and then ventured into the area for the first time. Neymar played him into space and he shot past German Lux. It was as simple as the victory itself.

Rafina jumps in the air as he celebrates scoring his second of the match for Barcelona

Rafinha (centre) is congratulated by Neymar (left) and Arda Turan after scoring his first

Luis Suarez netted the home side's third goal before half-time as Barca ran riot

Lionel Messi was named among the substitutes but came on to score in the second half

The Argentinian forward celebrates netting his team's fourth of the afternoon

The only man who has scored more in the calendar year is Suarez and he wrote the story of the first half with a goal, an assist and a thumping shot on to the post before being taken off at the break.

This Thursday, Suarez will pick up the Golden Boot for his scoring exploits last season; there are no signs of him slowing down during this campaign with eight goals and seven assists in 10 matches. He now has 45 goals and 24 assists in 45 games in 2016. The overall total for Barcelona now runs at 93 in 106 games.

Deportivo have drawn on their last two visits to the Camp Nou but there was very little even about this game. Barca started the game with three at the back – partly tactical and partly because Luis Enrique has fallen out with the last fit right back Aleix Vidal. Sergio Roberto will be back in that position for Wednesday.

Barca were bright from kick-off and Neymar hooked Rafinha's cross on to bar with Suarez heading the rebound over from very close in.

Mosquera kicked Neymar as Deportivo tried to get to grips with the hosts but they were coming off worse in the physical battle too and when Sidnei clashed with Suarez the defender hobbled off moments later.

Neymar skimmed the top of Lux's net with a free-kick and then on 21 minutes the breakthrough came.

Messi was named among the substitutes for the hosts after returning from injury

Barca boss Luis Enrique (right) greets Deportivo counterpart Gaizka Garitano before kick-off

Neymar takes on the sliding challenge of Deportivo's Guilherme dos Santos

Suarez rises to head the ball in the box as Depotivo keeper German Lux challenges him

Rafinha won the ball back down the right. Suarez nudged it back to him and he put his foot through a shot that went through the hands of Lux in the Deportivo goal.

Rafinha got his second on 36 minutes when Neymar found Pique with a deep free-kick. Lux saved Pique's towering header but Rafinha scooped in the rebound as he was falling.

A very wayward shot from Florin Andone was the best that Deportivo could muster. Rafinha was enjoying the playing time. He knows Messi will start on Wednesday but he is emerging as Luis Enrique's first option when any of his front three are unavailable.

Barca's three at the back were not very convincing however and Pique had a long touchline conversation with Luis Enrique while the rest of his team-mates were celebrating the first goal.

Jeremy Mathieu of Barcelona gets to grips with visiting forward Florin Andone

Ivan Rakitic rounds Laureano Ruiz as Neymar watches on during the first half

Rafinha bundles in from close range to make it 2-0 to Barca in the 36th minute

Suarez looks for the tiniest of gaps in the Depotivo defence at the Nou Camp

Mathieu rises highest to beat Andone to an aerial ball as Barca dominated before the break

Neymar hugs Messi and the Argentinian is swamped by his team-mates after scoring

It didn't matter as Deportivo failed to test Marc Andre ter Stegen.

Messi's second-half introduction kept things interesting and as if him scoring the fourth had not been enough to ram home Barcelona's superiority Laure got himself sent off for an elbow on Neymar.

The Brazilian has been accused of theatrics in the past but their was clear contact and the defender had to walk.

Barcelona were able to walk their way though the last 15 minutes.

Pique spent much of what was left of the game as an auxiliary centre-forward looking to score the fifth or to set-up new signing Paco Alcacer who is yet to get off the mark.

He hit the post, had a shot saved at point-blank range by Lux and shot wide from a yard out as Deportivo managed to keep the score at four.

Had Suarez and Messi played full games it could have been a lot worse.

Garitano cuts a forlorn figure on the touchline as his team crashes to a heavy defeat

La Junta de Andalucía pide -exige- el archivo definido de los ERES. Al entender que no hubo «trama criminal»

La Junta pide el archivo y salva a Chaves y Griñán y otros 24 ex altos cargos procesados en los ERE

Entiende que no hubo «trama criminal» ni se creó un procedimiento específico para eludir los controles de la Intervención

Chaves y Griñán en una imagen de archivo

La Junta de Andalucía, personada como acusación particular, pide el sobreseimiento de la pieza abierta en la que figuran procesados los expresidentes Manuel Chaves y José Antonio Griñán, y otros 24 ex altos cargos de la Administración autonómica, dentro del procedimiento específico por el que se concedieron las ayudas investigadas en el caso de los ERE fraudulentos.

De esta manera, y según adelanta este sábado Diario de Sevilla, la Junta solicita el archivo de esta pieza al entender que no hubo «trama criminal» ni se creó un procedimiento específico para eludir los controles de la Intervención y conceder de forma arbitraria las ayudas de los ERE.

El escrito elaborado por los letrados de la Junta, consultado por Europa Press y de 69 folios, apunta que en este trámite «no corresponde realizar valoración alguna sobre los hechos concretos que se refieran a la concesión de subvenciones y ayudas y mucho menos la calificación jurídico penal de tales conductas, dado que ello constituye el ámbito propio de otras diligencias previas y quedan claramente fuera del objeto del presente procedimiento».

El escrito cuestiona el dictamen pericial de los funcionarios de la Intervención General de la Administración del Estado (IGAE), que «ha sido el que ha permitido construir y mantener un discurso en la presente causa que estimamos erróneo», y cuyos postulados «el auto de 31 de mayo de 2016 (...) -donde el juez de refuerzo Álvaro Martín procesó a 26 ex altos cargos de la Junta, entre ellos Chaves y Griñán-, ha asumido de manera prácticamente acrítica» aún cuando la prueba pericial referida «haya caído en clamorosas fallas jurídicas que cuestionan severamente su validez», agrega el escrito de la Junta.

En esa línea, sentencia que «la tesis sostenida por el auto y por la pericial de los funcionarios de la IGAE parte de la existencia de una trama criminal, que no consideramos acreditada de acuerdo con las diligencias de prueba acordadas en las actuaciones, que implicaría, durante más de diez años, la concertación por centenares de personas intervinientes en procedimientos, procesos y decisiones distintos, y sin relación entre sí, para la asignación arbitraria de fondos públicos, de los que se han seleccionado, no sabemos según qué criterios, menos de una treintena de personas».

Finalidad de la acusación particular

La Junta solicita en su escrito el sobreseimiento del sumario del denominado «procedimiento específico» tras señalar que la finalidad y justificación del ejercicio de la acusación particular de la Administración andaluza, en tanto que perjudicada, «no es otra que procurar la devolución al erario público de los caudales defraudados», por lo que la «falta de cuantificación de los importes defraudados y la ausencia concreta de quienes se han lucrado indebidamente nos llevaría a formular una acusación incompleta, señaladamente respecto del delito de malversación» y a solicitar una«responsabilidad civil de cuantía indeterminada, frustrando así las legítimas expectativas de recuperación de los fondos públicos».

Según la Junta, esta concreción sólo puede hacerse en la «instrucción y posterior cualificación de los hechos objeto de averiguación en las otras piezas desgajadas de la causa principal, dado que formar acusación por tales hechos en la presente pieza impediría a esta parte formular acusación por los mismos hechos en las demás diligencias».

Como «punto final» a su escrito, la Junta subraya que «aunque nuestra posición sea de acusación, no podemos interesar la apertura de juicio oralsi entendemos que de la instrucción practicada no se concluye la existencia de ilícito penal».

Así, en relación al presunto delito de malversación, y citando un reciente auto -de 26 de septiembre- del Juzgado de Instrucción número seis de transformación en procedimiento abreviado en la denominada pieza Acyco, el escrito indica que «el ámbito de la malversación se contraería a los pagos efectuados a los denominados 'intrusos' y no a todos los ex trabajadores beneficiados, y sólo en lo que respecta a los aspectos relativos a la concesión de cada subvención o ayuda».

«Es decir, que en la concesión de las ayudas indiciariamente se ha incurrido en un delito de prevaricación si bien la malversación se contrae, exclusivamente, a las ayudas concedidas a los denominados 'intrusos'», agrega, para precisar que «las circunstancias relativas a la concesión de las ayudas, identificación de los destinatarios y cumplimiento de las condiciones legales para convertirse en beneficiarios han de ser examinadas en cada pieza y de ese modo está comenzando a proceder, a nuestro juicio acertadamente, el propio Juzgado de Instrucción número 6».

Además, concluye que de la instrucción de la pieza no se encuentra «prueba de cargo alguna que permita afirmar que se ha implantado un procedimiento específico para la concesión de determinadas ayudas y/o subvenciones y con una finalidad ilegítima», así como que tampoco existe «prueba alguna de que la mayor parte de los encausados tuviesen conocimiento de la ilicitud penal, ni siquiera administrativa, en la concesión de ayudas y subvenciones».

«Indicios de irregularidades»

La Junta, no obstante, sí que reconoce que existen «indicios más que suficientes de la existencia de patentes irregularidades» en la concesión de las ayudas, que integrarían el delito de prevaricación, pero que no son objeto de la causa del procedimiento específico, puesto que «no existen pruebas que avalen el presunto conocimiento que los encausados pudieran tener de las irregularidades que se venían cometiendo en la concesión de las ayudas, y aun en la hipótesis de que hubiesen tenido ese conocimiento, este elemento por sí solo no ampara una calificación propia del delito de prevaricación, pues debería ir acompañado del dictado de resoluciones administrativas injustas, aún en su modalidad omisiva». Por todo ello, puntualiza, «a salvo de quienes, efectivamente, intervinieron en la concesión de las ayudas, no puede calificarse al resto de los encausados como autores directos por dominio del hecho».

En este sentido, añade que no puede negarse que en la gestión de los procedimientos de concesión de ayudas ha habido «múltiples irregularidades administrativas» y que algunas de estas irregularidades tienen «trascendencia penal», pero reitera que esas responsabilidades deben dilucidarse en cada una de las piezas «pues para eso se dividió la causa originaria a petición del Ministerio Fiscal».

Tres personas agredidas en Alsasua están hospitalizadas. Todos los partidos políticos excepto Bildu y Podemos, condenan la agresión

Todos los partidos políticos excepto Bildu y Podemos, condenan la agresión

En las próximas horas, el teniente de la Guardia Civil agredido la pasada madrugada en la localidad navarra de Alsasua será operado en el Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra mientras que las dos mujeres heridas en la misma agresión permanecen también hospitalizadas con diversas contusiones. Tan sólo el sargento ha podido ser dado de alta, aunque tendrá que permanecer varios días de baja.

Estas cuatro personas, dos guardias civiles y sus parejas han sido agredidos esta madrugada en la localidad navarra de Alsasua cuando se encontraban tomando una consumición en un bar. Los dos agentes, que se encontraban de paisano y fuera de servicio, fueron reconocidos por algunas personas en el bar. Estas personas salieron y avisaron a otros de la presencia de los guardias civiles y les esperaron en el exterior. Cuando los agentes, acompañados de sus parejas salieron del local, los radicales abertzales les propinaron una paliza con puñetazos y patadas entre insultos y amenazas.

Inmediatamente acudieron en su ayuda efectivos de la Policía Foral de la comisaría de Alsasua con material antidisturbios y otros agentes del cuartel de la Guardia Civil de la localidad. Los policías forales llegaron a detener a dos de los agresores y se ha hecho cargo de la investigación de los hechos.

Los golpes recibidos fueron de tal brutalidad que las cuatro personas agredidas tuvieron que ser trasladadas a los centros hospitalarios de Pamplona. El más grave es el teniente que sufre una grave lesión en el tobillo, así como numerosas heridas en la cara.

Ni Bildu ni podemos

Todos los partidos políticos con representación en el Parlamento de Navarra han condenado los hechos. Todos excepto Bildu y Podemos, que hasta el momento no se han pronunciado al respecto. También el alcalde de Alsasua, Javier Ollo, de Geroa Bai, y el Gobierno de Navarra han mostrado su condena por los sucesos.

En un comunicado conjunto del Sindicato de Policía Foral y la Asociación Unificada de Guardias Civiles, organizaciones mayoritarias en sus respectivas instituciones, ambos cuerpos policiales recuerdan que “hechos como el sucedido desgraciadamente no es casual, sino que además denuncian la cantidad de actos contra las Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad, que desde hace años se llevan produciendo en esa localidad en la que se realizan parodias ridiculizando a la Guardia Civil y la Policía Foral, así como pintadas y otras actividades con el objetivo de atacarles y amedrentarles”.

El pasado día 12, sin ir más lejos, un grupo de abertzales trataron de reventar el acto de conmemoración de la patrona de la Guardia Civil, irrumpiendo en la procesión que se estaba desarrollando.