This is the first picture of a British ex-con who was killed during a shootout with police at a Costa del Sol hotel.
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| Sean Hercules was shot dead by police investigating a car crash |
Sean Hercules allegedly opened fire on officers who were trying to arrest him at the Autosole Aparthotel in Cancelada following a hit-and-run car crash.
Police claimed the 39-year-old, from Leeds, had fled the scene of an accident with a weapon earlier in the day.
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| Hercules had previously been jailed in the UK for a shooting and robbery |
Spanish authorities said he had a police record for drugs and weapons offences.
Investigators said they went to the hotel to arrest him after identifying him as a man seen fleeing the scene of an accident in Puerto Banus with a weapon on Monday morning.
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| Hercules, 39, allegedly opened fire on police officers |
A spokesman for Spain’s National Police said previously: “Officers came under fire when they went to arrest him and 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 the body of this British man.”
A spokesman for Spain’s National Police in Malaga added: “Police have had to repel an armed man who shot at them."
Hercules had been jailed in the UK previously.
In 2006, he was found guilty of shooting a man with a sawn-off shotgun outside Warehouse nightclub in Leeds.
He was jailed for six years.
At the time of that incident, he had been out of jail for just 12 weeks after serving less than half of a nine-year sentenced for armed robbery of a post office in Leeds.
He had been sentenced for that crime in 2001.
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| Police and other officials outside the hotel where Hercules was killed |
A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said it was in contact with the Brit's family.
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