Drug baron Daniel Smith, 24 - on the run from British police for attempted murder
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Drug baron Daniel Smith, 24 - on the run from British police for attempted murder - was with pals at a terrace table when he was shot three times in the face, blowing out his brains and teeth.
Tourists dived for cover as the gunman - riding pillion - struck in the fugitive's bolthole of Mijas, near Malaga. He emptied his gun, missing with three rounds.
But a horrified regular at the Lounge Bar said: "He kept firing at Dan even though he was on the ground. It was horrible."
Minutes earlier Smith had argued with an Irishman who stormed off, snarling: "You wait there - I will be back in a minute." Spanish cops, who suspect a drugs feud, were hunting for the Dublin criminal aged 27.
Smith fled to Spain as police here sought him over the 2007 shooting of an Essex businessman. Millionaire Doug Turner, 52, survived but lost three fingers
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3004189/Bar-Brit-is-shot-dead-by-hitman.html#ixzz0qFhF5CXZ
