A DP reporter - Elwyn Roberts - doesn't seem to know his verbs terribly well. He's used 'span' as the past tense of 'spin' on a few occasions, now. The most recent was in a report on a Rhyl Night club owner, when it was reported "Prosecuting barrister Owen Edwards said the victim span the defendant around so that they were face to face and punched him several times, causing him to drop the axe." If that was a direct quote, then the error is the barrister's but Spin is an irregular verb, anyway, so it should have been caught prior to being published.