Imogen Calderwood
AN incredible 15 suspects are being taken to court over the murder of a British holidaymaker in 2009.
Malaga court is to finally hear how father-of-three Stephen Mallon was thrown to his death off a bar terrace in Competa during a mass brawl.
One man is facing homicide charges, while 14 more face charges of aiding and abetting the tourist’s murder.
Mallon, 49, had gone out for a drink with his family at the La Estrella pub, in the mountain village, when the trouble started over a local girl, who his son had been talking to.
The girl’s ex-boyfriend allegedly threatened Mallon’s group and the situation quickly became so tense that the pub’s owner threw the Spanish out, but advised the Brits to stay inside.
When Mallon and his family finally left La Estrella, a mass brawl broke out with bottles and belts being used as weapons.
Mallon was hit over the head with a bottle and then pushed off the terrace of a nearby pizzeria, falling four metres.
He fell into a coma from which he never recovered, dying in Malaga Hospital 12 days later.
A total of 15 locals are to face trial from May 19.
The Public Prosecutor has asked that 13 should spend a year in prison for the crime of ‘being involved in a mass brawl’.
Meanwhile two of the accused face four years for causing injury with a dangerous object, while the person charged with homicide faces a 12-year-sentence.
Are we going to see justice or another cover up?
This WAS SALVAJISMO and the perpetrators are pure evil.
before they left the Bar they should of called the Police
so they could of been escorted away from the area
Competa is not policed, they were thrown out of the bar and the door locked to a gang or armed scum, at least 40 of them.
pure evil is correct. It was a riot and they were left alone to their fate.