In the last month, three men were murdered in their car when it was riddled with bullets by waiting assassins. And in August an Estonian man was shot in the head in a Marbella bar called The Point.


Another man was found in a burnt-out car with spent rounds littering the ground. Last year in The Point, William Moy, 43, from London, was gunned down.


Dublin gangsters Shane Coates, 31, and Stephen Sugg, 27, and British playboy drug baron Colin Nobes, 47, were also murdered. Coates and Sugg were found in a cement pit. Nobes was dumped under a bridge.


But an insider at the Spanish Serious and Organised Crime Agency said: “The difference between the two is that the British criminals use murder and threats only as a last resort. The Colombians are more ready to settle scores.”