Inside new crimewave at Brit loved Spanish resorts where sadistic gangsters settle disputes through torture & execution
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ON a remote and lonely Costa Blanca road, the ten-metre trail of blood on the Tarmac had led to John George’s body. Whoever killed the Belfast dad-of-two had been in a hurry, his corpse hauled off the rural highway and left beneath a lemon tree without so much as an attempt to dig a shallow grave.
![[Forensic markers on a road near a lemon farm.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/blood-police-forensic-markings-lemon-962610134.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
When I visited the scene on Thursday — two days after the 37-year-old’s remains were discovered — the arrows police had placed next to the bloody spatters were still in position. John’s badly decomposed body was found in a citrus orchard on the outskirts of the upmarket expat enclave of Rojales some three weeks after he went missing on a sunshine break.
![[Photo of John George, a missing Belfast man.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-family-missing-belfast-man-962359758.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
His murder is part of an explosion of violence on Spain’s Costas that saw another corpse, riddled with bullets, found in Rojales within days of Northern Irishman John going missing. The incidents are not thought to be linked. Further west, on the Costa del Sol, there has been more blood-soaked mayhem, with four shootings over the Christmas period at resorts favoured by British tourists.
![[Man in a puffer jacket standing in a lemon grove.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/oliver-harvey-lemon-farm-near-962609921.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
One man was murdered with a bullet to the head in Fuengirola in December. On Christmas Eve, a German man was shot and injured close to the Cristamar shopping centre in swish Puerto Banus. Meanwhile, on Boxing Day, two Swedes — alleged to be drug traffickers — were fired upon with assault rifles in Benalmadena.
![[Police tape on the door of a villa used as a cannabis farm.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/police-tape-villa-door-used-962610377.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
