Boxer who trained at Kinahan-linked gym on trial for murder of Spanish teen

A British boxer who used to train at a gym linked to Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan dramatically confessed to stabbing a Spanish teenager to death and sparking an international manhunt at the start of his Costa del Sol ‘road rage’ murder trial yesterday.

Lewis Briggs, 24, turned round on the witness stand and told his victim’s family sitting immediately behind him almost within arm’s reach: “I want to say sorry. It was never my intention to kill anyone. It was an accident.”

Slain 19-year-old Ulrich Perez’s sister Abril, 25, broke down and had to be comforted by their emotional dad Juan Carlos Espinoza at the Audiencia Provincial Court in Malaga as the nine jurors looked on.

The tense moment came after the British expat claimed he had committed a “stupid error, the worst of my life” by confronting Ulrich with a knife hidden in his hand he had snatched from the glove compartment of his rented Mercedes after an exchange of words moments earlier on a zebra…

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