Sonny Redmond, 33, consented to his extradition at a hearing in London on Monday and did not contest the case, so his return to Spain is imminent.[1] He was arrested in the UK on a Spanish arrest warrant, which is believed to have been issued after he broke the conditions of his bail in Spain.[1] He had been released on bail last November, around seven months after his arrest over an armed raid on a Costa Blanca cannabis club.[1] Redmond is from Bootle, Merseyside.[1]
In October 2024, two men including Redmond broke into Fulgencio’s in the La Marina urbanisation armed with machine guns.[1] They threatened an employee and stole around €5,000 of products and €600 in cash, then demanded €25,000 from the owner and a 50 per cent share of future profits.[1] One message sent to the owner said they would bring the war to him and that they understood he had a wife and children.[1] Another warned of blowing his head off and was accompanied by videos showing the gang’s weapons.[1]
He is believed to have left the country after the incident and was arrested on the Orihuela Costa on April 8.[1] He tried to flee Guardia Civil officers by running into a house, where he held an elderly foreign couple hostage.[1] After a prolonged struggle in which three officers were injured, he was subdued and arrested.[1] Two sub-machine guns were found at his house with over 300 rounds of ammunition.[1]
Weeks later, a gunman sprayed his car with bullets in an underground car park in Orihuela Costa.[1] He was sitting in his car at around 10pm on December 11 last year when an unknown assailant opened fire in the car park in Lomas de Cabo Roig, with up to 15 bullets piercing his vehicle.[1] The shooting left him with gunshot wounds to his arm, leg and chest.[1] He was rushed to Torrevieja Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery and spent time in intensive care.[1] After recovering, he returned to the UK and appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on June 11.[1] He had been due to stand trial in Liverpool for possessing a knife and a mobile phone while serving a previous prison sentence, but the Crown Prosecution Service has since dropped the case.[1]
