The takedown of a criminal network operating across Spain's Costa del Sol could provide vital momentum to a stalled murder enquiry on the streets of Liverpool.
The Malaga and Marbella areas are a regular hide-out for Merseyside fugitives on the run from the police in the UK, but the criminal expat fraternity in recent years are known for doing more than lying low.
Toxteth man Jason Curry, now 27, was circulated as wanted after 18-year-old Yusuf Sonko was murdered on Tagus Street, off Lodge Lane in Toxteth, on Friday, June 2, 2017. Yusuf was standing with a group of friends at around 8.30pm when he was struck in the head by a bullet, fired by a gunman on a bicycle.
