British body count soars as the Costa killers turn up the heat

Spanish police see the recent drug gang shootings
as a worrying sign of change in the expat community.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1838607,00.html

Gang violence erupts as rave craze returns

With the rebirth of dance culture, hard drugs
are openly for sale on the streets of Ibiza.
Tonight, 40,000 ecstasy tablets will be bought
on the island. Now the brutality that underpins
the trade is boiling over, and the party paradise
is turning into a nightmare world of contract killings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1854350,00.html

Irish gangsters' bodies buried in Spanish
warehouse, say police

· Missing men shot in head from close range
· Member of rival gang gave tip-off over location

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1825672,00.html

Deadly cargo

The luxury yachts smuggling cocaine into
southern Spain are a key part of the drug's
route to Britain. Tony Thompson reveals how
the glitzy surroundings help to veil a lucrative
trade run by hardened British criminals,
all competing to supply Saturday night's powder

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/drugs/story/0,,686704,00.html




It's all begining to sound like the script of
Sexy Beast meets The Long Good Friday.

Watch out for these charachters on the Costas

Left to Right
Eddie Pucci (Frank Sinatras Bodyguard), Ronnie Kray,
Actor George Raft, Reggie Kray, Boxer Rocky Marciano
and Charlie Kray (Older Brother of the Kray Twins)



The Actor John Bindon was a close associate
of the Krays and a friend of Bob Hoskins.
Indeed it was Bob Hoskins who spoke up
as a charachter witness for Bindon at London's
Old Bailey after Bindon killed a fellow gangster
with his bare hands.

London Underworld Bare Knuckle Fighter -
Lenny 'The Guvnor' Mclean
who died shortly after starring in
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Mcleans fights with Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw (pic below)
were legendry

The Cost del crime is quite infamous here in the UK, There's a few good films about it. Sexy beast is one.