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Date Published: 01/11/2023

Fugitive accused of burying Irish murder victim in Costa Blanca found dead

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Simon Fahy, also Irish, was accused of killing Carl Carr in Torrevieja and burying his body in Rojales

Fugitive accused of burying Irish murder victim in Costa Blanca found dead

A fugitive wanted for murdering an Irishman in a complicated love-triangle plot in a Costa Blanca villa has died before being brought to justice.

Simon Fahy, 30, was one of six people being investigated by the Spanish courts for the murder of 38-year-old Dublin man Carl Carr, who was bludgeoned to death in Torrevieja and whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Rojales in January 2019. He had been reported missing by his girlfriend four months earlier.

Spain had requested that Fahy be extradited from Ireland to face trial, but the Irish authorities refused and an obituary notice on RIP.ie on Friday October 27 confirmed his death.

The prime suspect in Carr’s murder is now Wayne Walsh, who is facing 15 years behind bars for homicide and another three years for the illegal possession of weapons. Four others, including Walsh’s girlfriend, are also accused of helping him bury the victim’s body.

One well-placed source said: “Fahy was investigated in this case and the investigating court asked the Irish authorities to locate him after deciding the case should go to trial and inform him of the decision and his legal obligations.

“The Irish authorities replied saying they couldn’t find him at an address they had for him and the Spanish judge issued an international arrest warrant against him.

“That is still in place and will remain so until the courts here have proof of his death.”

The convoluted crime dates back to the early hours of September 17, 2018, to a house in the La Siesta neighbourhood of Torrevieja. According to investigators, the victim, the now deceased Fahy and Walsh, along with three women, returned to the villa after a night of partying in nearby Cabo Roig.

It later transpired that Carr slept with one of the women, an ex-girlfriend of Walsh. Fahy found out about the affair and told Walsh, who flew into a jealous rage and the pair returned to the property.

"They stabbed him several times and gave him a plurality of blows to the face using a brass knuckle," resulting in death from "complex facial fractures due to multiple traumas," according to the court documentation.

The women then reportedly helped the men clean up the house and move Carr’s body to a plot of land next to the CV-920 in Rojales, where he was hastily buried.

A date for the trial has not yet been set but indictments have been issued against the suspects. Fahy’s cause of death has not been made public by the Irish authorities.

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Image: Guardia Civil

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