Two Britons accused of murdering a citizen to death mijas in November 2019 openly traveled from Manchester to Spain to liquidate Peter Williamson. The prosecutor’s office, which asks for 20 years for each murder and 20 years for two people for the possession of illegal weapons, discloses this. 150.000 Euro compensation to the widow and son of the deceased. The investigation concludes that the crime was committed because of rivalry between two gangs linked to drug trafficking in the city of Sanford, where the investigated and victim originated. This tension has moved to the Costa del Sol, where both organizations have interests. While La Opinión is already advancing, The defendants were recently released after paying a bail of 20,000 euros each and adding almost three years in temporary imprisonment.
The Public Ministry indictment, based on the Civil Guard investigation, is briefly as follows: a journey that started around November 11 the day of that year when they arrived in Barcelona from the UK. Two days later, Edward, 39, rented an Opel Corsa in the town of Villanueva y Geltrú Together with his 25-year-old partner, Aaron, they made their way to the Costa del Sol, but had made a stop in Alicante before, where agents took footage of the suspects at the hotel where they were staying. for a few days They visited several towns in Levante and arrived in Mijas on the 15th at midnight.. Always according to the prosecutor’s account, they parked the car on Avenida del Sol and stayed for several days in a house located in the Riviera de Sol urbanization, where the victim lived. Civil Guards also captured images of Aaron at a hotel in the capital and at Malaga airport.
The indictment states that they made tours and visits to various parts of Mijas municipality in those days, including the victim’s home on Calle Orfebres, “in the express interest of completing the necessary preparations to end his life and obtaining the weapon used in the crime”. From the early morning hours of the 20th, the pursuit of the victim intensified. Around 3:50 a.m., they crossed their target’s street with “final reconnaissance” check the area and check the security measures Peter’s house demands. On the 21st, the day of the crime, the investigation reveals: Both arrived at Polaris Avenue near the gym where the victim was at at 2:43 PM. Ever since his Audi S5 was parked nearby. They waited for him to leave his office (14:58) and went to Avenida del Sol to park the car. The letter adds later They waited around Orfebres street the victim arrives with information provided by other unidentified persons. When Peter has finished parking near his house and Edward is waiting in an unrecognizable car to facilitate a quick escape, Aaron approached his target on foot from the right side of the car and allegedly hit him multiple times. through the window before he runs back to his partner. Peter received eight 9 mm caliber bullets into the rib cage and extremities, the most serious of which caused a rapid death in the right hemothorax of the chest cavity. The weapon was not found.
in May 2020 The Civil Guard announced the arrest of the suspects. One of them was traveling in different European and South American countries for five months. Already on alert, he returned to Spain and settled in a house in a Murcia district used to prepare a shipment of cannabis to his country. Mediators intervened in this substance weighing just over 20 kilograms. Second, he was arrested in the UK and sent to prison for other crimes previously committed in his country; this is a fact that facilitates his later extradition to Spain.