Peter 'Fatso' Mitchell is trying to flog off his €1.2 million Spanish home after a bitter split with other Irish gangsters.

Peter 'Fatso' Mitchell is trying to flog off his €1.2 million Spanish home after a bitter split with other Irish gangsters.He has fallen out with close buddy Daniel Kinahan, the son of multi-lingual Irish crime boss Christy Kinahan.
Under pressure from the cops and paranoid about informants Fatso has been keeping his head down since last April."He's furious. It has had a huge knockon effect and at least six major investigations have been launched by different European police forces. The whole syndicate were left completely rattled and Mitchell's getting the blame," said a source.The bald-headed thug, originally from Summerhill in Dublin's north inner city, spent last week at a relative's wedding in the sun-kissed Caribbean.In the meantime, the 'Se Vende' signs have gone up on his plush house at Puerto Banus which he shared with his roughtrade wife Sonia Walsh and their two kids.
The only visible sign that it had been a family home is a large child's doll stuffed into a bin.Located in an upmarket residential street about one kilometre from the beach, it comes with an asking price of €1.2 million.But with the Spanish property hit harder than anywhere else by the credit crunch Fatso will be lucky to get that kind of money.Panicky Mitchell has also been forced to close down his nearby Paparazzi bar Within days of our story Spanish cops raided the premises and shut it down over 'licensing irregularities'.A note in the window explains the bar is shut until further notice and apologises for the inconvenience.It had mostly been frequented by criminal associates of Mitchell although groups of golfers unaware of the owner's background, would also stop at the chic boozer.Fatso is being kept at arms length by other shakers and movers among the underworld on the Costa del Sol.
"He is now considered to be too hot because, if you lot were able to dig up so much what do the cops know?" "A few of the English villains you photographed visiting Mitchell were freaked out when they saw their pictures in the paper and are blaming Mitchell," the source added.Among those was a former Premiership soccer player who is suspected of having gone into the money-laundering business after hanging up his boots.Fatso is a central player in a multinational syndicate that buys massive quantities of cocaine, heroin and hash, dealing direct with the producers.
The English and Irish gangsters have been pooling their resources to smuggle hundreds of millions euro worth of drugs into the UK and Ireland. Mitchell thought he was invulnerable, surrounded by a network of criminals and bent cops.
Also photographed at the Fatso's bar was Dublin hitman Paddy Doyle who was later gunned down in Spain.His cousins Paddy and Christy Mitchell are among his inner circle, with Paddy controlling the gangs' interests in Amsterdam. Fatso and Paddy Mitchell were arrested together by Dutch police in November 2004 as they were in the process of organising a shipment of guns and drugs to Ireland.But the pair got away lightly when they each received 20-month jail sentences. Dutch authorities didn't establish Fatso's true identity for almost a year until Irish CAB officers paid a visit to 'Anthony Swanson'.After his release he vowed he wouldn't get caught again and set up his organisation so that he is never in direct contact with drugs, guns or large sums of cash.Two English criminals were always seen close to Mitchell at his Spanish base, carrying a shoulder bag full of mobile phones each being a direct line to different members of the syndicate.
Fatso first came to prominence as part of John Gilligan's gang who were responsible for murdering Veronica Guerin.He is credited with persuading his best pal Brian 'The Tosser' Meehan and Gilligan to get involved in the drugs trade when they got out of prison in 1994.
Fatso fled in 1996. He has maintained contact with Meehan who is regularly visited at Portlaoise Prison by Sonia Walsh.