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made in the USA, and Ontko found that Montes was wanted in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Venezuela for questioning in relation to similar crimes. Tommy Ontko knew then that Montes was the man who had killed Caroline Dickinson.
Two years before he attacked Caroline Dickinson, Francisco Montes was caught in the act of trying to abduct an Irish teenager from a French youth hostel. The French police released him without charge. He had stalked Valerie Jacques, who was then aged fourteen, for days, following her and her school party from Paris to the Loire valley in 1994. She noticed him following her and staring at her. He broke into the room Valerie was sharing in a hostel at Bléré and tried to attack her. He asked her to go outside and help him fix his car. She looked round the room and saw that everyone else was asleep. She screamed and he ran away. The incident was reported to the hostel proprietor, but the following night Montes got into the hostel again. Valerie was now very frightened. She and the other four girls in her room were the only girls to have no proper security. There was no lock on their door, so they slid a chest of drawers against it. Once again she was woken up by the sound of Montes calling her name and trying to push his way in. She was terrified, jumped out of bed and ran to the far corner of the room. Then she heard the police arriving. The police asked her to identify Montes, but in spite of her identification, he was released with a caution.
Valerie Jacques only told the rest of her family about the incident when she saw his photograph on television after he was arrested in 2001 for Caroline Dickinson’s murder.
Montes admitted the sexual assault on Caroline, but denied intending to kill her. In June 2004, at the age of fifty-four, he was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
Francesco Javier Arce Montes was born on 14 March, 1950 in Gijon in northern Spain. His father, Geraldo Montes, ran a grocery store; he died in 1997. Since the arrest of ‘Javi’ in 2001, the Montes family have moved away, and don’t want to talk about him; ‘you do not choose your relatives’. In a statement to the court in Rennes, Montes’s mother elderly mother disowned him. She moved out of her house when he returned there in 1996 after murdering Caroline. She said, ‘I could not stand living with him any more’, and admitted to being frightened of him. The family pleaded with a Spanish judge to keep him in prison when he was arrested near Gijon for the attempted rape of a teenage girl in 1997, but after only three months in prison he was released. The mother had made three complaints to the police that he had threatened her with violence.
Montes complained that his upbringing had been difficult, but knew that he had been a difficult person. He admitted to having a poor relationship with his mother and his sister, and blamed them for everything that had gone wrong. He even accused his mother of poisoning his food.
Montes spent some time living in Britain during the 1990s. Given that he was a serial offender, the British police are now wondering whether he was responsible for sex attacks while living in the Earls Court area of London. Detectives from Swansea will seek permission to interview Montes in relation to a series of unsolved sex attacks in Wales that coincided with a four-year period when he was in Britain. The South Wales Police inquiry has a particular case as its focus; a man attempted to rape a thirteen year old Girl Guide on the Gower Peninsula in 1993, a girl who only escaped when holiday-makers heard her screams and went to her aid. At that time, Montes was working in a restaurant in Swansea. There was also an attack on a fifteen-year-old French girl at Oxwich Bay about seven miles from Swansea. Devon and Cornwall Police are asking all British police forces to re-examine unsolved sexual assaults from 1993 to 1996, though so far there has been little active research, and Scotland Yard said it had
Two years before he attacked Caroline Dickinson, Francisco Montes was caught in the act of trying to abduct an Irish teenager from a French youth hostel. The French police released him without charge. He had stalked Valerie Jacques, who was then aged fourteen, for days, following her and her school party from Paris to the Loire valley in 1994. She noticed him following her and staring at her. He broke into the room Valerie was sharing in a hostel at Bléré and tried to attack her. He asked her to go outside and help him fix his car. She looked round the room and saw that everyone else was asleep. She screamed and he ran away. The incident was reported to the hostel proprietor, but the following night Montes got into the hostel again. Valerie was now very frightened. She and the other four girls in her room were the only girls to have no proper security. There was no lock on their door, so they slid a chest of drawers against it. Once again she was woken up by the sound of Montes calling her name and trying to push his way in. She was terrified, jumped out of bed and ran to the far corner of the room. Then she heard the police arriving. The police asked her to identify Montes, but in spite of her identification, he was released with a caution.
Valerie Jacques only told the rest of her family about the incident when she saw his photograph on television after he was arrested in 2001 for Caroline Dickinson’s murder.
Montes admitted the sexual assault on Caroline, but denied intending to kill her. In June 2004, at the age of fifty-four, he was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
Francesco Javier Arce Montes was born on 14 March, 1950 in Gijon in northern Spain. His father, Geraldo Montes, ran a grocery store; he died in 1997. Since the arrest of ‘Javi’ in 2001, the Montes family have moved away, and don’t want to talk about him; ‘you do not choose your relatives’. In a statement to the court in Rennes, Montes’s mother elderly mother disowned him. She moved out of her house when he returned there in 1996 after murdering Caroline. She said, ‘I could not stand living with him any more’, and admitted to being frightened of him. The family pleaded with a Spanish judge to keep him in prison when he was arrested near Gijon for the attempted rape of a teenage girl in 1997, but after only three months in prison he was released. The mother had made three complaints to the police that he had threatened her with violence.
Montes complained that his upbringing had been difficult, but knew that he had been a difficult person. He admitted to having a poor relationship with his mother and his sister, and blamed them for everything that had gone wrong. He even accused his mother of poisoning his food.
Montes spent some time living in Britain during the 1990s. Given that he was a serial offender, the British police are now wondering whether he was responsible for sex attacks while living in the Earls Court area of London. Detectives from Swansea will seek permission to interview Montes in relation to a series of unsolved sex attacks in Wales that coincided with a four-year period when he was in Britain. The South Wales Police inquiry has a particular case as its focus; a man attempted to rape a thirteen year old Girl Guide on the Gower Peninsula in 1993, a girl who only escaped when holiday-makers heard her screams and went to her aid. At that time, Montes was working in a restaurant in Swansea. There was also an attack on a fifteen-year-old French girl at Oxwich Bay about seven miles from Swansea. Devon and Cornwall Police are asking all British police forces to re-examine unsolved sexual assaults from 1993 to 1996, though so far there has been little active research, and Scotland Yard said it had
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