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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 fight broke out in the pub. The cause of the brawl is unclear but Mr Mallon was thrown from a 25ft balcony when he stepped in to help, leaving him in a coma for almost two weeks before his eventual death.

It’s every family’s worst nightmare, and the ultimate worst case scenario. The possibility that everything could go so horribly wrong on holiday, especially in a town they had visited many times before 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 some witnesses claim that it was merely a drunken brawl over a girl that got out of hand. Regardless of the initial reason for a fight breaking out it’s a horrible thought that anyone should have to go through something like this while they were on their holidays.

So will incidents like this put people off visiting 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 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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