A British dad was killed by a gang in a pub close to his family’s Spanish second home when he attempted to help his sons who were getting beaten up. The 49-year-old father had taken his twin sons out to celebrate their birthdays when they became involved in an altercation in the bar. The cause of the brawl is unclear but Mr Mallon was thrown from a 25ft balcony when he stepped in to help, leaving him in a coma for almost two weeks before his eventual death.
It’s every family’s worst nightmare, and the ultimate worst case scenario. The idea of everything going so completely wrong abroad, especially in a town they had visited many times before and enjoyed their visits enough to have purchased a holiday home there. We like to think that a holiday is a getaway, an opportunity to forget about the hassle and stress of real life, but even in the most idyllic locations there is still a chance of something like this happening. According to friends of the family, the gang chose to attack the twins for being English, but there is no proof of this and some witnesses claim that it was merely a drunken brawl over a girl that got out of hand. Regardless of the initial reason for a fight breaking out it is worrying to think this sort of incident could happen to anyone when they thought they were going to have a relaxing holiday.
So will incidents like this put people off visiting Spain and other popular holiday destinations? Would you really want to buy a holiday home in a town where people are capable of such an act? Really, these sort of occurances are far more common in the UK than in a Spanish village. A whole gang of youths attacking a man in a quiet Spanish town is virtually unheard of and the chances are it was an unfortunate situation that escalated and got tragically out of hand.
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