CRIME NEWS JOURNAL: Costa del Sol, Spain: Irish Gangster Shot Dead In Gangland Hit: * LATEST NEWS LINKS UPDATED

The victim had been living in Spain with his partner and family

An Irish man living in Spain has been shot dead in a bar on the Costa del Sol in a suspected gangland killing. The shooting took place in the suburb of Elviria near Marbella at around 5pm this evening.

*It is reported the gunmen entered a popular bar in the resort this afternoon and shot the man numerous times.

(PHOTO: (Right) Gerard 'HATCHET' Kavanagh: with (Left) Tallaght Gangster Paul Rice:

The victim has been named as drug dealer Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh, The Sunday World report.
www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news-irishman-shot-dead-at-costa-del-sol-bar

The criminal is well-known to gardai as an enforcer for an international gang based in Spain.

He was also involved in boxing.

Police are gathering evidence from a burnt-out BMW X3 that was discovered nearby shortly after the incident.
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*An Irish man shot dead in Spain was a well-known criminal who closely associated with some of the biggest drug dealers in Ireland and who gardaí believe was the intended target of a botched murder bid last month.

The dead man, in his 40s and from Dublin, was singled out in a bar on the Costa del Sol on Saturday afternoon by two masked gunmen who fired at least nine shots, most of which are believed to have hit the victim.

The victim tried to run to safety when he saw the gunmen coming for him but collapsed on the premises when wounded. He was unresponsive when the emergency services later arrived at the scene.

He was taken by ambulance to hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

The murder occurred just before 5.30pm local time at an Irish bar in Elivira, on the outskirts of Marbella.

A BMW the gunmen are believed to have been driven to and from the scene in was later found burnt out by Spanish police.

The murder will once again refocus attention on southern Spain as being popular with Irish criminals trying to escape the attentions of the Garda, especially the Criminal Assets Bureau.

The dead man had been jailed in the mid 1990s for years after being caught with a quantity of heroin.

He was described at that time as being on a “hit list” of major drug dealers drawn up by a vigilante group with links to the Provisional IRA. Some on the list had been shot dead or wounded.

At the time, and despite being in his mid 20s, he was described by Garda witnesses during his trial as “the major figure in drugs supplies in the Crumlin, Drimnagh and Dolphins Barn areas of Dublin for some time” and “a prime mover” in the underworld.

*He was also one of three major drug dealers that lived in the Kilnamanagh housing estate in Tallaght Dublin 24.
He lived in Mayberry Road - Paul Rice and Troy Jordan also lived in Kilnamanagh.

Of late, the dead man had remained heavily involved in organised crime in Ireland and Spain and was closely linked to the Irish drugs gang based in Spain headed by convicted Dublin drug dealer Christy Kinahan.

A former boxer, the deceased is believed to have worked as a debt collector and enforcer for Kinahan. He had been threatened by dissident Republicans in Ireland and had been warned by gardaí his life was in danger before leaving the Republic for Spain.

With the Kinahan gang supplying large quantities of drugs to Irish gangs in recent years, the man shot today and another well known Dublin underworld figure had regularly travelled back to Ireland to collect debts from Irish gangs on Kinahan’s behalf.

While the dead man had successfully avoided attempts by the Real IRA in Dublin to extort money from him when it was led by Dubliner Alan Ryan, the new IRA alliance that has emerged since Ryan’s murder had put further demands on him.

He is also believed to have been a target of underworld figures in Spain arising from his criminal activities there.

Last month the former European boxing champion Jamie Moore was shot in the legs after leaving a house in Marbella, where he was based as a trainer for Irish fighter Matthew Macklin.

Gardaí and the Spanish police believed he was a completely innocent party shot in a case of mistaken identity. The man shot dead today is believed to have been the intended target of that attack on Mr Moore.

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It is believed two gunmen wearing balaclavas walked into the bar and fired several shots.

Following the incident the 45-year-old man was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A burnt-out BMW, which may have been used in the incident, was found nearby, shortly after the murder.

It is now being examined by Spain’s national police force.

The victim is well known to the Gardai as a drug dealer and enforcer for an international drugs gang based in Spain.

He had been living in Spain with his partner and family and was also involved in boxing.

Police believe the victim was the intended target in an incident in Marbella last month in which the former European light-middleweight boxing champion, Jamie Moore, was shot and injured.
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Related website links:
www.costadelgangsters.blogspot.com & www.blogdelnarco.com

CRIME NEWS JOURNAL

7 Sept 2014

Costa del Sol, Spain: Irish Gangster Shot Dead In Gangland Hit: * LATEST NEWS LINKS UPDATED

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