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Spanish cops arrest ‘senior Kinahan gang member’ in armed hotel swoop
Coffin is brought into church gangster in November last year at Malaga airport. But he escaped after crossing a busy motorway as officers closed in on him when he went to meet relatives arriving from Ireland.
The European Arrest Warrant was issued after two guns and cocaine
were allegedly found in his Special Operations officer Kevin ‘Flat Cap’ Murray HUNDREDS gathered as Kevin “Flat Cap” Murray was buried yesterday.
The funeral of the suspected Regency Hotel gunman was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Strabane, Co Tyrone.
Huge crowds lined the streets as family and friends carried the coffin. Family members follow coffin in Strabane Crowds at Kevin Murray’s funeral in Co Tyrone yesterday car during a search in 2010. The fugitive is also understood to be facing charges over the gunning down of Dunne at a friend’s birthday party in Cabra, Dublin, in 2010 in what was described as “a perfect hit”.
The gangland boss was sitting on a bar Cops arrest Irishman in bed with woman The father of two, 47, died in his home at Townsend Street, Strabane, on Wednesday night.
A judge ruled earlier this year he was too ill to go on trial in relation to the Dublin gangland murder in February last year.
Murray had been diagnosed with terminal motor neurone disease. stool when his killer walked in and told terrified customers to get on the floor before blasting his victim with two shots to the head and three others to vital organs.
A spokesman for the Spanish police confirmed the Costa Dorada arrest and identified the person only by his initials.
He said: “Spanish National Police officers have arrested an Irishman born in 1982 on foot of a European Arrest warrant at his hotel in Salou.
“The warrant was issued by Irish authorities for illegal possession of firearms and drugs, relating to a search on the suspect’s vehicle in 2013 in which gardai found two loaded guns and cocaine.
“Investigators were made aware the fugitive had left Ireland to head to Spain in May 2016 using a passport issued by the Irish authorities which he had in a false name. Efforts to locate him centred on Malaga due to his alleged links to the Kinahan organised Irish crime family.”
He added the arrest was carried out by Special Operations Group officers who are often called on to take out terrorists.
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Year two guns and cocaine were found in search of suspect’s car