DAUGHTER OF MURDERED COSTA TYCOON AT HIS GRAVESIDE
Jumped up thief
CROOKS stole a pair of 15ft yellow bouncy castles, worth thousands of pounds, from a back garden in Old Newton, Suffolk. THE devastated daughter of murdered Costa Brit Andrew Bush has spoken of her horror at coming face to face with her dad’s evil killer in court.
And Ellie Mason-Bush, 21, wept at her father’s graveside as she told of her relief when his former lover Mayka Kukucova, 26, was found guilty of shooting him dead at his villa on the Costa del Sol.
Ellie said: “Before I walked in the courtroom my hair was standing up on edge because I was so tense.
“I was frightened and I didn’t want to see her. I felt so alone and just wanted my dad.”
After the jury in Malaga delivered its guilty verdict on Friday, Ellie said the relief was immense.
Flowers
“It didn’t feel real for the first ten minutes and then it sank in. I walked out and said thank you to the jury.”
Hours later, Ellie visited her dad’s grave in a tiny cemetery in Estepona. Clutching a teddy and flowers, she gazed at the headstone and said: “We’ve done it for you, Dad. We’ve finally got justice for you.
“She’s going to get 20 years in jail now. I’m going to spend the next 20 years making you proud, Dad. “Kukucova was convicted of murdering millionaire jeweller Mr Bush, 48, in a jealous rage in April 2014 after he had ended their two-year relationship and begun dating a Russian model, Maria Korotaeva, 23.
Kukucova went to his villa and broke in, waiting two days until he a r r i v e d with Maria. Slovakian swimwear model Kukucova shot him twice in the head and once in the arm before driving off in his gold-plated Hummer.
She fled home to Slovakia but handed herself in to police three days later and was extradited to Spain.
Ellie reveals how Kukucova had driven a wedge between her and her dad. She says: “She was so jealous of my relationship with him that I had to move out of the house.”
“Me and my dad had such a close relationship. As well as father and daughter we were also mates.”
She is sickened by Kukucova’s lack of remorse. Ellie says: “If she apologised I think I could have forgiven her. I feel like she deserves every day she gets in prison.”