You could say that Scott is a little rough around the edges but that probably isn't all his fault, he has had a really rough life.
Born and brought up in California, he didn't have much schooling and left home whilst still young and seems to have travelled all over the States even spending some time in Hawaii.
He believes in God, believes if something happens, it's God's will. He does not bear a grudge, works hard when he can find work and just gets on with life as best he can. He does not touch alcohol, does not use drugs and carries no weapons.
He has been in prison in America and whilst out on Probation with only 6 months to go, he absconded.
He told his Probation Officer that he was going and we believe him, having got to know him as well as people might given the opportunity, and his Probation Officer let him go. The choice he made then ensured that he no longer had options for what was to come.
He left America some ten years ago and arrived here on the Granada Coast around 6 years ago, finding a place for himself high above the Granada road in a clearing left empty after the high aquaduct was built to carry water down to the coast from up in the hills. Such a peaceful, tranquil place with amazing views.
He would sit with a stray dog or two outside a supermarket in Motril High Street until he was asked why didn't he get a job. I'll work if you give me work, was his answer and so he did. Garden work mostly, and his interest in plants and trees grew and he took cuttings, successfully, and potted them on and made a garden alongside the house he had slowly over the years put together. He collected broken things from 'the dumpsters' as he called them and fixed them if possible and gave them away, refusing to take money for things that were God given. Of course he would sell things as well now and again. He did like to have conversations so it was best not to begin talking with him whilst he was working.
He built himself a 'chariot' on a bicycle and always carried his pet dogs with him when he was going into Motril. It used to take him an hour and a half to cycle back up to his home from Cortijo Azahar after working in the garden.
Meanwhile, his Passport expired.
Unfortunately, one day, he happened to meet a Spanish woman who decided she wanted to get to know him better. She had come down from Barcelona where she has a son and parents and where she was running a clothes shop until it went bankrupt. She has access to a family flat in the next coastal village.
She shacked up with Scott but soon came the winter and with no electricity, only a cold outside shower and a 'whizz bucket' inside the house, she departed only to arrive back when the weather became warm enough in late Spring. The relationship was very up and down, with her departing when arguments became too frequent then arriving back out of the blue. Scott has said so many times he would not have her back only to give in when she reappeared.
He acquired chickens and rabbits for her, built a bathroom for her, generated electricity for her, had begun putting in an irrigation system, had made a fishpond from a thrown away swimming pool, had been given fish for it.....
He was cool, he was happy.... he probably would have been a lot happier if she hadn't been so screwed up but he must have been lonely up there by himself when she wasn't around. One thing is for certain, she wasn't normal.
Two weeks ago, almost, they must have had a blazing row. She rang the police who put Scott in jail overnight. Scott told the police that she slapped him so he slapped her back. He also told us that had he wanted to hurt her he could have knocked her head off. They found no marks on her to justify 'domestic abuse'. He told us that she had been trying to make him react for a while, threatening him with an iron bar in one instance.
Next morning she asked to see Scott to ask if they could get back together but Scott said that she had made a case against him which could not now be dropped, anyway, she had put him in jail and that was unforgiveable.
Next day, police escorted Scott back to his home and removed 'her' and her belongings. She took out a restraining order - Scott mustn't get within ? metres or kilometres of her. Not that he had any intention whatsoever of going anywhere near her.
They have been to court where she and her lawyer lied. She is claiming Scott's house as hers saying she has lived there for more than a year and that she has paid for everything whereas the opposite is true. She does not work and has never had any money. Scott has been paying for her petrol so that she can drive about and has provided board and lodging all this summer for her.
Scott has his hearing tomorrow morning and will be sentenced says his lawyer.
She is Spanish whilst he will be classed as an illegal immigrant. He has no money to buy himself out of prison.
Scott says that she has been chatting up another chap that Scott knows and he thinks that she might take this other chap to live up the mountain when he isn't around.
He has filled the water tank for her in case she goes back. He has left a generator so that she will have electricity and the gardening tools and all his furniture and such furnishings he had acquired. She told the police that she had lost the house key but Scott knows she has it still so she can go in if she wants to. He bears her no malice.
He says she will still be around, persecuting him and anyway, he will have nothing to come out to after time inside. His animals gone, his plants dead his property looted and taken over. He has been there before.
We wish him all the luck there is but he doesn't believe in luck. It's God's will he says.
Sacha & Sara
Saffy
What was he guilty of? Nothing very much. After six years why would he want to leave? He would not have left the home he had made had he thought he had an option. He could not have wanted to go but he is philosophical........this night he is gone. Our loss is enormous.
Vaya con dios Scott.
Update:
Monday 14th November 2pm. We heard that Scott was in Barcelona.
