Police are investigating the brutal assassination as a drug-related gang shooting but have yet to make any arrests.

Locals living near his €450,000 penthouse in the popular holiday resort of Fuengirola saw him going into the building on Monday afternoon

Lewis Briggs, 24, turned round on the witness stand and told his victim’s family sitting immediately behind him almost within arm’s reach: “I want to say sorry. It was never my intention to kill anyone. It was an accident."