The 76-year-old retired general told the Smoking Gun that he met Corina Cretu, 45, roughly 10 years ago when she was working as an assistant to the president of Romania. She is now a member of the European Parliament.

The 19-year-old, named locally as Michael Jordan Hill, suffered multiple injuries after falling from the fourth floor of Hotel Brisa (pictured) in the party resort of San Antonio.

Martine Lapworth, 41, was nearly four times over the drink-drive limit when she tried to collect the youngster, a court heard.

“We’ve been in a very, very slow recovery now since 2009,” says Prof. William Dickens, “and what we’ve been seeing is a very, very slow decline in the unemployment rate.”