Family vow to carry on search for Craig Mallon’s killer after his mum’s death

THE family of a man killed on his brother’s stag do have vowed to continue their fight for justice after his mother died.

Antoinette Mallon, 48, passed away in April, three months after being diagnosed with lung cancer and six years after her son Craig was killed by a single punch in a Spanish resort.

Antoinette and her husband Ian battled to discover the truth about the death of the 26-year-old quantity surveyor from Coatbridge in Lloret de Mar.

He had been on his brother Bryan’s stag do when he was punched, just hours after stepping off the plane.

He died shortly after the attack, on May 19, 2012.

Now Antoinette’s sister Gillian has spoken about the family’s determination to find out what happened to her nephew.

Gillian, 41, said: “Antoinette wouldn’t want us to give up and we’re determined to keep this investigation going.

“She’s with Craig now, and she has her peace, but I know if she were here she would want us to continue and that’s what we’re going to do.

“Ian, Bryan, myself and our three other sisters will do whatever it takes.

“We need, and hope, that the UK Government and Spanish authorities will support us in finding out the answers we have been looking for.”

Next week, Gillian will travel to the resort where her nephew died, along with private investigators, to continue to appeal for information about the fight which killed Craig.

She said: “It won’t be easy, going back there. It’s just a horrible place to us now, knowing what happened.

“We have a bench out there for him though and it’s important to visit that, as well as continue speaking to people about what happened.”

The investigators, led by former senior police detective David Swindle, are hoping to find new information or speak to people who may have seen something during the attack.

A talented, fun-loving young man, Craig was living in Australia at the time of his brother’s stag do and travelled over to Spain to join the celebrations.

He was last seen speaking to a woman with long blonde hair outside Rockefeller’s nightclub when a man punched him in the side of the head.

His attacker ran off before paramedics tried for almost an hour to save him.

Craig’s dad Ian said in a statement earlier this week that he had endured “six years of not knowing who was involved” in his son’s death, and “six years of hoping the Scottish and UK Governments would help” his family.

In 2014, Ian told The Sunday Post that his health had been devastated after Craig died and his late wife Antionette said she had developed depression since her son’s murder.

Despite this, Ian is determined to fight for justice for his son.

The investigator

David Swindle, who leads the private investigation into Craig’s death, hopes CCTV can unlock the truth.

Images show potential witnesses to Craig’s murder – two Spanish women and a group of men, believed to be French. They have never been traced.

Mr Swindle said: “It’s tragic that Antoinette died not knowing who killed her son. I recollect Antoinette saying in interviews that the person who struck the fatal punch may not have been aware of the consequences of what he did.

“I’m hopeful people’s consciences will be playing up and the appeals result in us receiving that piece of information which will assist in bringing closure for Craig’s family.

“They don’t deserve what they have been going through”

He added it was thanks to the “determination of Craig’s family” and financial support from his employer, Laing Rourke, that Craig’s death hasn’t become “another forgotten statistic of a Scottish person killed abroad.”