A dad from Bournemouth has died after an altercation with a gang in a bar near his holiday home in Spain when he attempted to help his sons who were getting beaten up. The 49-year-old father was out celebrating his twin sons birthdays when a bar fight got out of hand. The cause of the brawl is unclear but when their father stepped in to try and help he was pushed from a 25ft balcony, 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 idea of everything going so completely wrong abroad, particularly in a town they’d visited countless times in the past and enjoyed their visits enough to have purchased a holiday 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. Whatever the underlying cause of the fight it’s a horrible thought that anyone should have to go through something like this when they thought they were going to have a relaxing holiday.
So will incidents like this put people off visiting Spain or other similar popular destinations? Would you really want to buy a holiday home somewhere that has gangs who would do something like this? Really, these sort of occurances are a lot more likely to affect people in the UK than in a Spanish village. 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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