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BBC News
03-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Spain bar shooting: Holidaymakers 'frightened' in surreal aftermath
It's less than 36 hours after a gangland double murder in a busy bar on the Costa Del Sol, and there is no sign of the Spanish police - apart from an occasional patrol car gliding cordon, no tape, no forensics in white suits, no officer guarding the front door of Monaghans Bar in to a local cameraman, it was the same on Sunday afternoon - the day after Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were gunned the homeland of the two men who had been shot dead, the case would be classed as a top level "category A" homicide with the bar sealed off and turned upside down for days afterwards. This is Spain, not Scotland. But it must surely be wrong to assume the lack of a visible presence means a lack of interest from the Spanish National part of the country is no stranger to violence linked to organised crime and this was the murder of two men in a public were shot dead in cold blood in a busy bar and bystanders could easily have been injured or mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, has been quoted as saying the police need more resources to deal with the shootings and the general threat of drug-related organised crime. When I arrived late on Monday morning, Mongahans was the only place not open for business in the long strip of pubs and restaurants along the beachfront, where holidaymakers basked in the sun and swam in the sparkling were inside but made it clear they didn't want to talk about what had happened. The owners of neighbouring businesses felt the same tourists who'd been in Monaghans before the shooting described it as a friendly bar. They said a group of Scottish men were watching the Champion's League final in the pub before the shooting. They were boisterous but not behaving badly and Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were with men would have witnessed the horrifying murders of their friends.A video filmed afterwards showed a Scottish man on the phone, saying "Someone's got shot in the head."David Meddicks from Glasgow had left the bar with his wife a couple of hours before. He recalled: "We went back to our hotel for food and later on at the reception of the hotel, two wee Spanish women ran in, shouting "bang, bang, bang, bang.""We looked and we could see the police and all the blue lights. We had been thinking of going back down for another drink and decided not to bother. So I'm quite glad I didn't."An Englishman who been in the pub said: "We were there an hour before and walked back later and found out what happened. "It made us want to go home, to be quite honest. You go away on holiday and you don't expect this. Really frightening."Another tourist, Robert Sorman from Bathgate, said: "You've heard of the Costa Del Crime but you never expect it to happen when you're here." An elite Costa Del Sol-based anti-drug and organised crime unit is heading the investigation, reporting to a local magistrate who is in charge of the inquiry Spanish police have said very little in public so far and there has been no official confirmation of the identity of the two with experience of investigations in Spain say that's not unusual and to be fair, police in Scotland rarely speak about ongoing inquiries into organised crime unless they absolutely have Spanish will be seeking the assistance of Police Scotland to get intelligence on the background of the two men, and it's likely that Scottish detectives will be travelling to the Costa Del Sol at some UK's National Crime Agency has full-time staff in Spain who will be facilitating such co-operation. 'This won't go unavenged' There is speculation that the shootings are linked to the ongoing gangland feud in central Scotland which has resulted in dozens of incidents, including alleged attempted murders, and more than 40 of the people targeted in the violence are linked to the Daniels crime group - long-time rivals of another serious organised crime group, the Lyons family, of which Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were their murders would represent a massive escalation in the level of violence compared to what has gone killings of two senior figures from the Scottish underworld in a bar in a foreign country is possible that it was unrelated to the feud; that something else lies behind thing's certain; Police Scotland will be deeply concerned about revenge attacks and more one former officer put it: "This won't go unavenged forever."
BreakingNews.ie
14-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Gardaí anticipate several more prosections over gangland murder in Dublin eight years ago
Gardaí expect several more prosecutions will follow 'in the foreseeable future' in relation to a gangland murder in Dublin eight years ago, an inquest has heard. Jamie Tighe-Ennis (24) of Timberhill Apartments, Artane, suffered fatal gunshot wounds to the head when he was attacked on Moateview Avenue, Priorswood, Dublin 17 on October 28th 2017. Advertisement The prospect of several individuals facing criminal charges in relation to Mr Tighe-Ennis' death emerged at a brief sitting of Dublin District Coroner's Court on Wednesday. Detective Inspector Donncha Maguire told the coroner, Clare Keane, that he anticipated there would be other prosecutions in the case 'in the foreseeable future.' However, Det Insp Maguire said he believed the Garda investigation was 'going to take a substantial period of time.' He applied for an adjournment of the inquest under Section 25 (2) of the Coroners Act on the basis that criminal proceedings had been commenced in relation to the murder, with one individual already having appeared before the courts. Advertisement Det Ins Maguire requested a six-month adjournment of the inquest in order to provide greater clarity about the progress of the investigation at that time. Dr Keane granted the application and adjourned the case for November 12th. Mr Tighe-Ennis was walking home from a nearby pub with a group of friends when he was shot twice in the head by a gunman at around 2.20am in a suspected gang-related attack. The father of one, who came originally from Darndale, was later pronounced dead at the scene. Advertisement A stolen Audi A3 which was believed to have been used as a getaway vehicle was later found partially burnt out on a green between The Griffith apartments and Prospect Hill in Finglas about 10 kilometres away. Last November, Det Insp Maguire revealed that a new file was being forwarded to the DPP to the murder of Mr Tighe-Ennis as a result of a development in the Garda investigation. In February this year, John Farrell (59) of Rialto Cottages, Dublin, appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court accused of helping a criminal gang by buying a car used in the murder. Mr Farrell was charged under Section 72 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 with enhancing the ability of a criminal organisation by buying and keeping a 2000-reg vehicle between 13th and 18th October, 2017. Advertisement The court heard the accused made no reply when charged with the offence. At the time of his death, it was reported that Mr Tighe-Ennis had a history of involvement in robberies and drugs and had several criminal convictions including firearms offences. He was also suspected of having been involved in several murders in Coolock and Ballymun. Although he had connections with both the Kinahan and Hutch criminal gangs, it remains unclear if he was a victim of the deadly feud which emerged between the rival criminal organisations, which has claimed the lives of 18 people to date. Advertisement A relation of Mr Tighe Ennis, Jordan Davis (23), was also killed in a gangland-style murder around 18 months later when he was shot while wheeling his newborn baby in a buggy outside a school in Darndale. At the opening of the inquest into Mr Tighe-Ennis' death in January 2018, evidence was heard that the deceased had to be formally identified from his fingerprints because of the extensive nature of his head injuries. Separately, the coroner's court heard that an elderly finance academic was fatally stabbed at his home in north Dublin last December. Scott George (76) a married father of two from Tobersool Lane, Balbriggan, Co Dublin was found dead in the detached house on the night of December 12, 2024. The deceased's wife, Goretti McCormack-George gave evidence of formally identifying her husband's body to gardaí at the Dublin City Mortuary in Whitehall. The coroner said a postmortem on Mr George's body showed he died as a result of 'multiple stab wounds and an incised wound to the neck.' Detective Inspector Brian Downey applied for an adjournment of the inquest under Section 25 (2) of the Coroners Act on the basis that criminal proceedings have already been commenced in relation to the death. Ireland Man jailed for seven years after crash which kille... Read More Dr Keane granted the application and adjourned the hearing for a date to be fixed following the conclusion of any related criminal prosecution. The deceased's son, Dáire McCormack-George, an apprentice solicitor and Oxford law graduate of Cabra Road, Phibsborough, appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court on December 14 last charged with the murder of his father. The accused's solicitor, Danny Nolan, told the court that his client had been diagnosed with mental health issues. Judge William Aylmer remanded Dr McCormack-George in custody and directed that he receive immediate psychiatric assessment and any treatment required while in prison.
