Scots vodka queen Nicola Morrissey and her gangland husband became “neighbours from hell” after swapping their £4.5million mansion for an apartment. The couple scaled back to a €1200-a-month (£1040-a-month) rented top-floor flat after US authorities named Johnny Morrissey as a key member of the Kinahan Cartel.
They had invited a luxury Marbella magazine into their home before the former Rochdale doorman was accused of being a money launderer and Kinahan enforcer in April by the US treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). As we reported on Friday, armed Spanish cops smashed through the apartment’s front door at 6.40am last Monday as the couple slept.
Neighbours at the block near Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol told how the couple quickly got on their wrong side after moving in over the summer. One said: “They’d only just unpacked when Nicola had a run-in with the community president.