British armed robber shot dead by Spanish cops in a gunfight following a car crash
A British armed robber has died in a gunfight after opening fire on police officers in the Costa Del Sol
A BRIT armed robber has died in a gunfight with police at a Costa Del Sol hotel.
Sean Hercules, 39, opened fire at cops who knocked at the door of his room aiming to arrest him following a car crash earlier.
The officers — thought to be robbery squad — returned shots, fatally wounding Hercules at the Autosole Aparthotel in Estepona on Monday.
A judge is now investigating.
A National Police spokesman said: “Officers came under fire when they went to arrest a suspect.
“They were obliged to use their weapons to repel the attack, resulting in the death of the gunman.
“Two firearms and four cartridges he used to try to resist arrest were found next to this British man’s body.”
Hercules, who has posted selfies of himself with former professional boxer David Haye, had previously been jailed in the UK.
In 2006, he was locked up for shooting a man with a sawn-off shotgun from a motorbike in Leeds.
At the time, Hercules had been out of jail for only 12 weeks after serving less than half of a nine-year sentence for an armed robbery at post office in the city.
He admitted wounding and possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
A judge told him that the public were “entitled to believe they live in a civilised society, not the Wild West”.
Last night, the Foreign Office said it had offered help and bereavement advice to the family of a British man who had died in Spain.
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