A County Durham mum says she will not rest until she “gets justice” for her son following his death in Spain.
Sandra Adams, of Chester-le-Street, believes her son Brett Dryden was murdered. Expat Brett was found dead in his flat with a four-inch gash to his head in the resort of Mojacar on the Costa Almeria.
A large amount of cash, his mobile and designer sunglasses were missing. A post-mortem in Spain ruled the 35-year-old’s death on July 22 was due to a blood clot in his lungs, known as a pulmonary embolism, reports the Mirror.
Sandra, who says she has heard nothing from Spanish police for six months, told the Mirror: “They’re trying to cover it up. I just want justice for my son. I will not rest until I get justice.”
Sandra, 56, and husband Robert – Brett’s stepdad – travelled to Spain from their home in Chester-le-Street, the following month and heard evidence of foul play. Neighbours told Robert they had CCTV footage showing three men running away from Brett’s home on the night he died.
And Sandra says she received a silent call from her son’s phone, several hours after medics say he died. After tracking the handset, she found it was being turned on and off while moving to different locations in Spain.
Sandra said: “We rang the police and said, ‘There’s footage of people going into Brett’s house and running away’. I flagged up all these things and that we think it was murder. After that they called us in and said, ‘We need you and your husband to take a step back and let us deal with it now’.”
Brett, a former Nissan factory worker and a dad of one, had lived in Mojacar for five years while running a legal cannabis club called The Dawg House. It was raided by police who took away CCTV footage just before Christmas but it is not known if the operation was linked to his death.
Sandra explained that the family brought Brett home and had a full autopsy over here but they couldn’t find the cause of death. It came back inconclusive. “So they took samples of all his organs and took X-rays and we’re still waiting on that report,” she added.
Sandra believes he was beaten around the head but has no idea why anyone would want to hurt her son. She said: “His friends say they can’t understand it. Brett was quite a big character in Mojacar. He knew a lot of people and he had a lot of friends. He was a very helpful, polite boy. He never had any problems, he was very well loved.”
Spanish police declined to comment on the case, the Mirror reports. A court spokesman told the publication: “The investigation hasn’t been suspended or closed. It is still open and this incident remains under investigation. The court is waiting for the Civil Guard to complete their full report and present their conclusions. For the time being there’s nothing more we can say.”
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