Overview
- The former Son Servera police officer, Julián C., was intercepted at Adolfo Suárez Madrid‑Barajas and placed in a Madrid prison after an international arrest warrant was triggered on his arrival.
- He was convicted in October 2024 by the Audiencia de Palma for the 8 March 2018 attack on his wife and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, more than €6,600 in compensation, and a ten‑year restraining order.
- The defendant removed an anti‑violence electronic bracelet and fled Spain on 30 December 2024, traveling via Schwechat (Austria) before settling in Thailand for about a year and a half.
- Spanish and Thai officials exchanged judicial documents in May 2026 after the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said an earlier extradition request lacked sufficient paperwork, with the sentence file sent on 12 May.
- The arrest ends a long fugitive search and brings renewed legal protection for the victim, who has said she feels justice has finally been done, and it could speed the start of the prison term and enforcement of the restraining order.