Brit teacher pistol-whipped & wife hospitalised after armed gang raid Spanish home having confused them for drug dealers

A BRITISH expat and his Irish woman suffered a terrifying onslaught successful their Costa Blanca location perpetrated by masked intruders who confused them with cause dealers.

They needed infirmary attraction for injuries they suffered erstwhile the equipped pack broke into their spot successful the mediate of the nighttime and assaulted them.

It was successful the mistaken content they were hiding ample amounts of cannabis resin the criminals planned to steal.

The unnamed Brit, a schoolhouse teacher, was near with a superior caput coiled which required 18 stitches aft being pistol-whipped during the nightmare incident. His spouse besides needed stitches.

The play occurred connected a residential property called Torre Zenia successful Lomas de Cabo Roig, portion of the Orihuela Costa country southbound of Alicante which is simply a fashionable expat and vacation destination.

The play occurred connected a residential property called Torre Zenia successful Lomas de Cabo Roig, portion of the Orihuela Costa country southbound of Alicante which is simply a fashionable expat and vacation destination.

The intruders, said to person spoken with Eastern European accents, are thought to person mistaken the location they targeted with different spot the mates are understood to ain adjacent which has been taken implicit by squatters.

The mates who were attacked, and asked not to beryllium named "for fearfulness oregon reprisals", recounted their fearfulness acquisition to a section Spanish insubstantial arsenic portion of a telephone to constabulary to summation their beingness successful the area.

They told Diario Informacion however they were woken up astir 4am by the dependable of their dogs barking and attacked aft going to analyse the sound and seeing 4 intruders with pistols, Balaclavas and gloves climbing implicit a partition into their backmost plot oregon already connected their property.

The British antheral told however 1 of the pack deed him implicit the caput with the butt of his weapon earlier ordering him to the crushed wherever helium was near covered successful humor from the coiled helium sustained.

His woman was assaulted, besides suffering a caput injury, erstwhile she followed him retired into the garden.

The intruders marched them backmost into their surviving country and sat them down connected their sofa portion they ransacked the property.

The expat mates began to fishy they were the victims of a lawsuit of mistaken individuality erstwhile the men began to inquire astir the ‘Poles’ and cannabis resin.

They were forced retired into the thoroughfare astatine gunpoint and made to constituent retired different spot adjacent Diario Informacion said they ain which squatters person taken implicit erstwhile they alluded to that location and suggested the intruders mightiness person picked the incorrect place.

The men subsequently raided that property, with the mates calculating 8 men successful full participated including radical they spotted successful getaway vehicles.

Police person not yet made immoderate authoritative remark connected the incident, said to person happened astir a period ago.

It was not instantly wide this greeting if immoderate arrests person been made.

The play the mates were caught up successful is known arsenic a ‘vuelco’ successful Spanish - erstwhile cause dealers bargain from others.