Have they no humanity? How Spanish police failed the families of nine British expats from the same village who died in a wildfire – with one woman finding her father’s bones in his burned-out BMW in a car pound FIVE WEEKS later

As a local funeral director handed Danielle Gillam-Kirton a small urn containing the ashes of her parents, who were among the nine Britons killed in a Spanish wildfire this summer, she had no reason to suspect there was anything more to remember them by.

After all, a female police officer had assured her that the burnt-out black BMW 5-series car, in which they had vainly sought to escape when flames raced towards their hilltop villa, had been forensically searched and ‘nothing’ more had been found.

Soon afterwards, the lives of popular expats Pete and Fran Gillam were celebrated at a moving memorial

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