Killer of tourist admits charges A Spaniard on trial in the Canary Islands for the brutal murder of Scottish grandfather Brian Hobbs has admitted he kicked and beat the 52-year-old to death as he lay slumped in a chair on a bar terrace in the resort of Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura.

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