The Guardia Civil is looking into the shooting death of a 29-year-old British man. His body was found on December 21st at a house in a residential section of the Orihuela Costa, in the Campoamor district. The inquiry is being led by the Homicide Unit of the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Alicante Command. A judge has ruled it secret, and no arrests have been made yet.
Ten days after another Brit was shot in his garage in Orihuela Costa, this incident happened. It had not been made public until now. He lived through that attack even though three of the ten shots fired at the windscreen of his automobile wounded him. The Guardia Civil is looking into whether the murder of the 29-year-old man is linked to the shooting of another Englishman, a 32-year-old man who was thought to be the leader of an armed gang that extorted cannabis clubs in the Vega Baja region to control and take the money.
Found by the Local Police
A patrol from the Local Police of Orihuela municipality called the Guardia Civil about the crime on the Orihuela Costa around nine o’clock at night on the 21st. After getting a call from some people who reported something bad had occurred to a friend in a property, the municipal agents proceeded to a residence in the Lomas de Cabo Roig development in the Campoamor district.
When they got to the house, they found the body of a young man covered in blood. They called the Guardia Civil right away, and they sent in experts from the Judicial Police and the Criminalistics Laboratory. They also told the judicial commission to check over the scene before letting the body be moved to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Alicante. The autopsy on the young man’s body showed that he had been shot multiple times, although the actual number of shots he received has not been made public.
Drug-related score settling
One of the primary theories being looked into is that the shooting was connected to drug trafficking, just like the shooting of the other Englishman on December 11th in an underground garage ion the Orihuela Costa. The Guardia Civil is looking into whether the same people were responsible for both events.
The probe also includes other criminals from England and Ireland who live in the Vega Baja area and have already been looked into by the Guardia Civil.
On the other hand, just a few days before this incident on the Orihuela Costa, Jonathan Alan S., a Northern Irishman who is accused of killing his fellow countryman John George Hardy with two shots a year earlier in Rojales, was freed after paying 100,000 euros in bond.
The day before Jonathan’s release, his wife was also caught alongside an Englishman and an Irishman in a car with two loaded guns. Another man ran away, and the Guardia Civil is looking into if there is a link between the murder that was found in a residence in Campoamor and these armed men.
Author: Derek Appleton
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