DRUG LORD FLED GUNS

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Feb 10, 2008 | by LISA O'CONNOR

NOTORIOUS Dublin drugs dealer Paddy Doyle, 27, was gunned down as he leapt from his car after being ambushed on the Costa del Sol in Spain.

A gunman cut down Doyle with four shots to the head last Monday as he tried to flee from his BMW four-wheel drive. Witnesses said the car, in which Doyle was a passenger, crashed into a lamp-post as it was showered with bullets.

In the wake of the gangland killing on the edge of the resort town of Estepona, west of Marbella, murder squad detectives swooped arresting an Irishman, three Britons and three Moroccans.

Edward Thompson, 49, from Liverpool, and Graham Hall, 41, from Wallsend, Newcastle, along with a British minor, the Irishman and three Moroccans are accused of handling cocaine worth nearly pounds 6 million headed for the drug market in the UK.

Doyle, an enforcer for a major Dublin drugs gang, fled to Spain after being involved in a gangland feud which claimed ten lives since 2002.

Driving the car which was ambushed was Gary Hutch, 26, another alleged Dublin gangster. He escaped unhurt.