British villains have been joined by their Irish counterparts

You can run – but you can't hide from the gunmen on Spain's Costa del Crime | UK news | The Observer: "British villains have been joined by their Irish counterparts, partly as a result of the Irish authorities' increased activity in hunting down criminal assets. Last month Christy Kinahan, from Dublin, named by the Garda as a major player in drugs and arms, was arrested at his apartment near Marbella, in a co-ordinated series of raids across Europe...

You can run – but you can't hide from the gunmen on Spain's Costa del Crime | UK news | The Observer

You can run – but you can't hide from the gunmen on Spain's Costa del Crime | UK news | The Observer: "Ronnie Knight, wide-boy former husband of the actress Barbara Windsor, acted as the underworld's ambassador to the area. He had property in the hills outside Fuengirola which he described in his autobiography, Black Knight, as 'paradise found', missing only a decent Indian restaurant to make it perfection. When he went back to stand trial at the...

gunmen on Spain's Costa del Crime | UK news | The Observer

You can run – but you can't hide from the gunmen on Spain's Costa del Crime | UK news | The Observer: "shooting at the Lounge Bar in Mijas, near Marbella on the Costa del Sol, last Saturday night belongs in the non-fiction section. The death of Danny Smith, 26, from Billericay in Essex, is the latest murder of a foreigner to be investigated by Spanish police in what has become a world of expat mayhem and one that reinforces the image of this once...

body of a woman, said to be Latin American and in her 30’s, was found in a Málaga street

body of a woman, said to be Latin American and in her 30’s, was found in a Málaga street on Friday. National Police say the body, which was found in Calle Alcalde José María Carmona, showed signs of violence. They were called to the scene by a passerby at 0650am on Friday.Police later arrested a Spanish man in his 20’s at his workplace in the city. He has not yet been named in reports, and sources close to the investigation quoted by 20minutos say...

Paul Charleston, from Leigh, was taken into custody on Mallorca in November 2008, along with another Briton, 38 year old Donna Maria Messe, of Seisdon

court case in Palma de Mallorca into a fraud where at least 35 Britons were defrauded of 6.8 million € has got underway.The Britons were convinced to invest in a project to build 18,000 luxury flats in Bulgaria, brought into the scam by webpages and a phone campaign in 2007 and 2008. The calls were made from an office in Palma were a company was created with a legal capital of 3,000 €, and the callers used false names.On the opening of the case on...

Euro Weekly News | Mijas shooting was not gang related, say family | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain

Euro Weekly News | Mijas shooting was not gang related, say family | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "distraught parents of 26-year-old Briton Daniel Smith who was killed last Saturday at the The Lounge bar in Riviera del Sol have criticised the media for suggesting the murder of their son was gangland related.Today, June 11, they told this newspaper their son was killed after he intervened to help a young...

Weapons found in house where Irish murder suspect arrested - The Irish Times - Thu, Jun 10, 2010

Weapons found in house where Irish murder suspect arrested - The Irish Times - Thu, Jun 10, 2010: "weapons cache during a search of the house where they arrested an Irishman suspected of shooting a man outside a Costa del Sol bar.Detectives discovered hand grenades, detonators, ammunition and packages believed to contain explosives including dynamite, after a search of the house in Coin, southern Spain, and called in police bomb disposal experts.Daniel...

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Express Yourself :: Brits in Costa del Sol: Blood on the beaches

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Express Yourself :: Brits in Costa del Sol: Blood on the beaches: "Londoner Paul Feathers, 32, was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend at his home in the down-market resort of Benalmadena. Police are still hunting two...

Gambia police seize 2.5 tonnes of cocaine worth $1 billion, arrest 12 - Rest of World - World - The Times of India

Gambia police seize 2.5 tonnes of cocaine worth $1 billion, arrest 12 - Rest of World - World - The Times of India: "Gambian police seized 2.5 tonnes of cocaine bound for Europe and arrested a dozen suspected traffickers after a joint investigation with British detectives, a security source said on Tuesday. West Africa has become a major transit point for Latin American narcotics as smugglers take advantage of generally weak surveillance in the vast...

cryptogon.com » $1 Billion Cocaine Bust in Gambia

cryptogon.com » $1 Billion Cocaine Bust in Gambia: "Gambian and British police seized more than two tonnes of cocaine worth about one billion dollars in a small fishing village — a record haul for West Africa, officials said Wednesday.The operation highlighted the growing popularity of West Africa for South American drug cartels.Fifteen people — South Americans, Europeans and Africans — working under cover of a fishing company on a tiny island were...

Jamie Daniel throws food over fellow con in rage at sentence. | News Of The World

Jamie Daniel throws food over fellow con in rage at sentence. News Of The World: "CRAZED crime boss Jamie Daniel's beef about being banged up boiled over when he threw a plate of steaming-hot stew at another inmate.The hood's broth-chucking strop came only hours after he'd been given a year's porridge for a road-rage attack.Last night a source revealed the 52-year-old hood was in a foul mood when he arrived back in Glasgow's tough Barlinnie nick.'Daniel...