The Costa Nostra | Olive Press Newspaper

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The Costa Nostra | Olive Press Newspaper: "Seeing a fight break out his natural instinct was to jump in and break it up. But what the Irish builder couldn’t know was that one of the men he helped to hold back was a dangerous figure, wanted by police in the UK for kidnapping and robbery.
Bar staff ordered the man to leave the premises, but within minutes he had returned with a .38-calibre pistol and indiscriminantly fired off half a dozen shots in and around the bar, one of which hit Mr O’Neill in the back and killed him.
Police are now on the hunt for Scouser, Darren O’Flaherty, 35, who they suspect of carrying out the shooting.
Sadly the incident was anything but rare on the Costa del Sol, which has seen dozens of similar gangland-style shootings – many reported in the Olive Press – over the last few years.
Often dubbed the ‘Costa del Crime’ back home in the UK, just days earlier a 33-year-old British man was lucky to survive after being shot three times through the window of his Mijas home as he watched TV.
Police discovered an arsenal – including explosives and grenadesEqually disturbing was the gangland-style execution of 26-year-old Briton Dan Smith, who was killed at point blank range outside The Lounge Bar in Mijas, in June."