Alonso Charged With Reckless Homicide

[Tals-biggest-fan]

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Bolton Wanderers defender Marcos Alonso has been charged with reckless homicide following a car accident in Madrid on Sunday that resulted in the death of a young woman.

A statement from the court said: “Magistrates’ Court number four in Madrid yesterday released the footballer Marcos Alonso Mendoza after naming him as a ‘formal suspect’ in an alleged crime against road safety, a crime of intoxication, of accidental killing and causing accidental injury.”

The 20-year-old, who Bolton signed from Real Madrid in a £2.5 million deal last summer, was at the wheel of a car that left the road and crashed into a wall early on Sunday evening. He is believed to have given a blood sample that shows him with almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.

The city fire service cut free the car’s passengers. A female who was in the car was taken to hospital in Madrid where she died shortly after being admitted.

There were said to be a total of five persons in the car. As well as Alonso, his brother Miguel was a passenger in his car while another passenger is believed to have been Real Madrid player Jaime Navarro. The other two passengers are said to be two women the men had met earlier in the evening.

Miguel Alonso remains in hospital with three broken ribs and bruised lungs while Jaime Navarro suffered a broken collarbone but has been released from hospital.

Marcos Alonso will be allowed to return to England while a date is set for his trial, a process that could take as long as eight months.

Bolton Wanderers have refused to comment on the matter while it is the subject of legal proceedings.


Well he's f*cked!

[Riviman]

This is old news, even the date on the link is 3rd May. Unfortunately I agree with your final statement !!

[Tals-biggest-fan]

Whopps didn't see that well anyways he not going to do well in jail.... he's not a bad looking lad and will be sure to become someones bitch in no time!

[jimbo_bwfc]

I suppose after being made Chris Eagles bitch at Turf Moor last year, he can't exactly be degraded any further.

[wanderers_on_tour]

Hate to bring this topic up again, but just came across the lads twitter page.

Now the maximum date for his trial according to the rags in May would be confirmed within 8 months, which by reckoning makes that some time in January. According to twitter the lad posted that he's out for a month but is looking forward to getting back into the action and sumat about being stronger than ever which, alongside Coyle's comments about Alonso's performance against Blackburn and looking forward to his return, doesn't sound like the words of a player who could be sentanced within a months time to a fair number of years in jail.

If his trial does go ahead I imagine Coyle would be looking for a new left back in the transfer window but there's been no word as of yet of possible replacements which again timed with the woeful drop in form of Robbo seems a tad bit suspicous.

Now a) has anybody heard or know anything about the Spanish legal system and indeed Alonso's trial? I can't imagine its the sort of crime that would receive a meer slap on the wrist (and neither should it) and b) is there any word about potentialm replacements, either in the transfer window or from the reserves?

[Sponge]

It's all a bit strange – he shows no outward signs of being disturbed by it. Likely his (very expensive) lawyer has advised him and the club to keep quiet.

[Prufrock]

He wants to get Stevie G's lawyer!

S'gonna be horrible few months, anyway. Hopefully justice is done and if he is innocent he gets off and comes back fine, and if he isn't, he doesn't get away with it coz he is a footballer, and from a selfish point of view, the club has some sort of contingency plan.

[TANGODANCER]

Not sure how to feel about this one. His only actual crime, ie done with intent, is that of getting behind a wheel whilst over the limit. Twice the amount can easily be done and there must be thousands who chance it at that level, weekly. What happened as a result, a total tragedy, was surely done without intent. Till all the facts emerge it's a worrier. He isn't likely to walk off scott free, that's for sure and the girl's parents will probably want him jailed. All mere specualtion though till the trial. Fingers crossed.

[bobo the clown]

Not sure how to feel about this one. His only actual crime, ie done with intent, is that of getting behind a wheel whilst over the limit. Twice the amount can easily be done and there must be thousands who chance it at that level, weekly. What happened as a result, a total tragedy, was surely done without intent. Till all the facts emerge it's a worrier. He isn't likely to walk off scott free, that's for sure and the girl's parents will probably want him jailed. All mere specualtion though till the trial. Fingers crossed.

Tango, mate. That is a BIG crime.

Getting behing a ton of machinary and driving it wiikle in no fit state to is not "one of those things" and frankly it should not be "easily done".

No greater proof of this would be this case ... assuming the facts are right.

Anyone who does this ... & a girl was killed from the resultant crash .... shows the foolish, reckless nature of what was done.

The trial will prove whether or not he is guilty of this and I don't want another life ruined ... but if he did he deserves what he gets.

[thebish]

Not sure how to feel about this one. His only actual crime, ie done with intent, is that of getting behind a wheel whilst over the limit. Twice the amount can easily be done and there must be thousands who chance it at that level, weekly. What happened as a result, a total tragedy, was surely done without intent. Till all the facts emerge it's a worrier. He isn't likely to walk off scott free, that's for sure and the girl's parents will probably want him jailed. All mere specualtion though till the trial. Fingers crossed.

Tango, mate. That is a BIG crime.

Getting behing a ton of machinary and driving it wiikle in no fit state to is not "one of those things" and frankly it should not be "easily done".

No greater proof of this would be this case ... assuming the facts are right.

Anyone who does this ... & a girl was killed from the resultant crash .... shows the foolish, reckless nature of what was done.

The trial will prove whether or not he is guilty of this and I don't want another life ruined ... but if he did he deserves what he gets.

indeed x100...

[Tals-biggest-fan]

I starting to question the truth behind the whole thing, It was never comfirmed by any of the major news sources and I'm sure this would of been gold for sky sports to be able to make a thing of this!

[Bruce Rioja]

His only actual crime, ie done with intent, is that of getting behind a wheel whilst over the limit.

ONLY? ONLY?

feck me!!!!!

[TANGODANCER]

I thought you might have known that by his "only" crime I wasn't stating an exoneration but his original intent and "only" meant "single original act" against the law at the onset. The rest was a tragic result of his foolishness . Nor was it meant that drink-driving isn't a serious crime, it is and, since he was found over the limit, then he's guilty. Didn't really think I needed to spell that out as everybody knows the facts as well as I do. The resulting death happened because he broke the law on drink driving and I can't see how there can be any doubt about that. Nor can I see any way he can escape the consequences of that.

If I worded it badly then apologies. It wasn't intended that way at all.

[wanderers_on_tour]

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but I find it odd if he was actually over the drink drive limit he was allowed to return to England and carry on as per for 8 months? The only source I can see of him being 'over the limit' are the rumours set alight by his tweet many hours earlier and his reluctance to take a breathaliser test asap. As an aside what would the legal reprecussions be from a charge of reckless driving as a sole count? i.e COULD it be a compensation on the sly job? (I am neither condoning such a act, or saying it could make it 'right'. At the end of the day nothing can make up for being the potential cause of death of another person inc. jail time, it is just mere speculation but these things do happen)

[Prufrock]

First of all, unless Spanish law works very differently to most other legal systems, he isn't guilty of anything yet. If he is found guilty of 'reckless homicide' (I imagine Spanish equivalent of involuntary manslaughter (by gross negligence)) then he'll be looking at more than a fine. We have a statutory, driving specific, equivalent carrying a maximum of 14 years (and I think minimum of one). Lord only knows how we've managed to invent a conspiracy theory though!

[wanderers_on_tour]

First of all, unless Spanish law works very differently to most other legal systems, he isn't guilty of anything yet. If he is found guilty of 'reckless homicide' (I imagine Spanish equivalent of involuntary manslaughter (by gross negligence)) then he'll be looking at more than a fine. We have a statutory, driving specific, equivalent carrying a maximum of 14 years (and I think minimum of one). Lord only knows how we've managed to invent a conspiracy theory though!

It's the internet, what did you expect

[officer_dibble]

As far as I can see it thats the question - was he over the limit? If so, he's guilty and he'll be (deservedly) put away.

[coffeymagic]

I like the 'I didn't mean it' defence.

I can see it now....

'...I put it to you that Mr Moat didn't ACTUALLY mean to kill anybody. His only crime, if you can call it that was the curiosity of wanting to find out what happens to bullets when they're fired randomly into the air....'

Not guilties all round.

You're right enough, it's only a crime if you get caught.

Here's one thing that's always puzzled me about drink driving though. How many people will turn down a lift home from a drunk driver? 'You shouldn't be driving in that state!' 'Do you want to get the bus home?' 'Just go a bit slower ok?'

Ahh, if Lee Hughes can leave the scene and still come back no questions asked I'm sure the fact Alonso stayed with his victim will surely go in his favour.

Nowt to worry about.

[One Hump Or Two?]

I wonder if it's been affecting his performances, or not?

When Woodgate and Bowyer were charged after that scrap with Asian students about ten years ago, someone close to the case told me that while they were waiting for the trial(s), Bowyer carried on training and playing as though nowt was going on, whereas Woodgate more or less went to pieces and couldn't do anything on the pitch until after the case was finished.

[Bruce Rioja]

I wonder if it's been affecting his performances, or not?

When Woodgate and Bowyer were charged after that scrap with Asian students about ten years ago, someone close to the case told me that while they were waiting for the trial(s), Bowyer carried on training and playing as though nowt was going on, whereas Woodgate more or less went to pieces and couldn't do anything on the pitch until after the case was finished.

Ah, but that's because Bowyer's an unmitigated racist c*nt. And we're free to call him that because that's what he is!