A fugitive Brit believed to be a hitman who police say was wanted for murder has been arrested after a run-in with two women at a Costa del Sol petrol station and a subsequent car crash.
Police released photos of pistols, ammunition and a silencer seized in his vehicle after the suspect, described locally as having links with ‘one of London‘s most dangerous crime gangs’, tried to flee and they held him and discovered he should be in prison.
The pics showed the unnamed Brit was also carrying a book called ‘Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self.’
The arrest was made in an area called Riviera between La Cala de Mijas and Marbella. Respected local paper Sur said he was wanted for ‘several assassinations’ and reported the argument he had at the petrol station was with two Dutch women he started berating after trying repeatedly to get them to buy him cocaine.
A spokesman for local police in the municipality of Mijas, who are employed by Mijas Town Hall, said: ‘A British man has been arrested in Riviera who had a warrant out for him ordering his remand in prison for murder.’
He added: ‘While conducting surveillance work in La Cala de Mijas, officers were called yesterday to deal with an altercation at a petrol station in the area.
‘Upon arrival, they interviewed a customer at the station who stated that a foreign man who had been harassing her had already driven away from the scene.
‘Shortly afterwards, a call was received alerting us to an accident on Orfebres Street in Riviera.
A fugitive Brit believed to be a hitman who police say was wanted for murder has been arrested after a run-in with two women at a Costa del Sol petrol station and a subsequent car crash (pictured)
The pics showed the unnamed Brit was carrying pistols, ammunition and a silencer – as well as a copy of a book called ‘Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self’
A close up of one of the pistols and a small bag full of ammunition – both allegedly found inside the vehicle
The Rivera del sol housing complex in Mijas, Spain where the Brit gunman was apprehended and arrested
‘Upon arrival the officers found a damaged vehicle that matched the one involved in the incident at the petrol station.
The driver attempted to flee when he saw police but was quickly intercepted by the officers. Once identified, they verified that he was a British man with a warrant for his arrest and remand in prison for murder.
‘He was also carrying several firearms and a large amount of ammunition which were seized.
‘After being arrested, he was handed over to the Civil Guard police force so he could be taken before a judge and subsequently imprisoned.’
Police offered no detail about the exact nature of the crimes he was wanted for or any information about his age. As well as two pistols and the silencer they are also said to have found a contacts book with names and addresses in his crashed car which they have handed over to Civil Guard investigators to go through.
The photos they released of the smashed-up Nissan Qashqai showed the British man had hit a lamp-post in a residential street.
He has already been remanded to jail on the orders of a judge in Fuengirola.
Sur reported today: ‘An investigation remains open to clarify his links with organised crime.’
