Dad Dies After Trying to Help his Sons in a Bar Fight in Spain
August 27th, 2009 at 04:37pm Under General
A British dad was killed by a gang in a pub near his holiday home in Spain when he stepped in to defend his sons in a brawl. The 49-year-old father had taken his twin sons out to celebrate their birthdays when a bar fight got out of hand. The cause of the brawl is unclear 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 possibility that everything could go so horribly wrong on holiday, particularly in a town they’d visited countless times in the past and liked enough to have bought a second home there. We like to think that a holiday is a getaway, a chance to relax and get away from the stress and trials of everyday life, but even in the most idyllic locations there is still a chance of something like this happening. According to friends of the family, the gang chose to attack the twins because they were English, although this is unproven 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 is worrying to think this sort of incident could happen to anyone when they thought they were going to have a relaxing holiday.
But is this incident going to influence people’s decisions whether to visit Spain and other popular holiday destinations? Would you really want to buy a holiday 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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