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SNAIL’S PACE JUSTICE
wo years on, nobody has yet been charged for the “Body in the Bag” murder, with the corpse washing up on a La Zenia beach in March 2014. That’s despite a prime suspect being arrested on the Costa Blanca, whilst the man who allegedly ordered the hit, is spending 14 years behind bars for trying to import drugs into the UK. The Liverpool coroner has been quoted as saying that he doesn’t know whether any inquest will happen in Britain or in Spain, or anything on the time scale involved, let alone any legal proceedings Francis Brennan from Liverpool was discovered in a bin bag washed onto La Zenia beach after he was kidnapped by men pretending to be Guardia Civil agents in Javea. At the time of his murder. the 25 year-old was on the run from the police, as he was awaiting a court date following a stabbing at a concert in Milton Keynes. Brennan had fled to the Costa Blanca with his girlfriend, Sophie, before Christmas 2013 after ignoring the advice of his parents to stay in Britain, and was approached on January 24th 2014 in Javea by three men wearing caps like those worn by Guardia
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Officers, and forced into a car, before being taken to an unknown location. The “hit” was allegedly ordered by Liverpudlian, Paul Scott, who was jailed for 14 years after admitting to conspiracy over the importation of cocaine to the UK, with the Guardia naming him as the prime suspect for plotting the Francis Brennan killing, which was said to be over a debt. One of the three allegedly “hired” for the job was said to be an associate of Scott, Paul Monk, who was arrested by the Guardia at his Javea villa last year), as part of the joint Operation Captura, with the British police. The Liverpool Echo reports that there are calls to work out what happens next and whether any mur-
der trial takes place in Britain or Spain, in addition to a long-delayed inquest on Mr. Brennan which is before Liverpool coroner Andre Rebello. Mr Rebello, told The Liverpool Echo, “We have heard from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The judge in Spain is still awaiting further information from Merseyside Police. We need to know are there going to be proceedings in Spain or proceedings here?
I don’t think we are going to know anything for two or three months.” It has emerged that suspect Monk, wanted for questioning over the kidnap and killing of Mr Brennan, has not yet been extradited to the UK over outstanding drug trafficking matters, after the highly-publicised Guardia raid which was part of Operation Captura, the UK police campaign to bring fugitives to justice back in Britain.