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 was out celebrating his twin sons birthdays when they became involved in an altercation in the bar. The reason for the fight breaking out is unknown but Mr Mallon was thrown from a 25ft balcony when he stepped in to help, putting him in hospital for 12 days before he eventually died.
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 think of our holidays as an escape, 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. Friends of the family claimed the youths set upon the twins for being English, but there is no proof of this and other witnesses believed it was a disagreement over a local girl where people got carried away. Regardless of the initial reason for a fight breaking out it’s a horrible thought that anyone should have to go through something like this while they were on their holidays.
But is this incident going to influence people’s decisions whether to visit Spain and other popular holiday destinations? How many people would choose a second home somewhere that has gangs who would do something like this? Well, in reality incidents like this are far more common in the UK than they are in Spain. A whole gang of youths attacking a man in a quiet Spanish town is virtually unheard of and the most likely scenario is that it was a simple argument which got tragically out of control due to alcohol.
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