(^) The Mail on Sunday September 1 • 2019
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MONDAY
The metal detectorists who found hundreds of
coins buried beneath a field in Somerset are told
to put them back, as Chancellor Sajid Javid is
counting on them growing into magic money trees.
Boris Johnson confesses that he didn’t fulfil his
ambitions to be a tile designer as he was never any
good with borders.
TUESDAY
The funeral of Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing
takes place – if undertakers can ever get the damn
coffin open.
WEDNESDAY
The man whose hand was saved when surgeons
sewed it to his groin say his underpants now fit him
like a glove.
ThUrSDAY
A new report finds that there are more splits in
divided Britain than ever – mostly down to
Cuadrilla’s fracking.
The pea-sized mini-brains grown in a chemical
soup are signed up for the next series of The
Apprentice, since they can’t be dumber than the
usual contestants.
FriDAY
The new sequel to the horror film It flops at the
box office, as audiences on both sides of the Atlantic
realise they don’t need to go to cinemas to see what
damage a demented clown can do to a community.
SATUrDAY
The Spanish company responsible for the drug
mix-ups that led to 17 cases of ‘werewolf syndrome’
apologises for the howlers.
Steve Bennett
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Killed in cold blood...
British lawyer who lost
string of cases for Mob
CAFE EXECUTION: Murdered lawyer Ravik Gurra and the burnt-out getaway car his assassins used
By Jake ryan
and John Lucas
A BRITISH lawyer who rep-
resented Albanian gangsters
has been gunned down, pro-
voking fears he was executed
after losing several high-
profile criminal cases.
Ravik Gurra, 50, was shot
three times in the head by a
hitman armed with a pistol
fitted with a silencer as he sat
outside a cafe with friends in
the Albanian city of Elbasan.
The murder sent shock-
waves through the leafy Hert-
fordshire town of Harpenden
where Mr Gurra lived with
his wife, Nina, and two teen-
age daughters.
Mr Gurra, who is understood
to have previously worked as a
Home Office interpreter, had
represented several Albanian
gangsters, including members
of the Capja crime family, but
had lost a number of cases.
In November he represented
Emiljano Shullazi, who was
found guilty of extortion and
running a criminal organisa-
tion and sentenced to 14 years.
There is no evidence Shullazi
was involved in, or knew of,
the attack on Mr Gurra.
An Albanian lawyer, who
asked not to be named, told
The Mail on Sunday: ‘The
assassination of Ravik Gurra
has made all criminal barris-
ters take notice. We are not
safe to represent the mafioso.
‘The criminal gangs operate
across all borders. If they kill
lawyers in Albania because
they lose a case, they could
kill them in places like Ger-
many and England too.’
The murder took place in
March but has only now been
revealed. A stolen getaway
car was later found burnt out
but no arrests have since
been made.
A source said that Albanian
police have two theories
about the killing – either that
it was punishment for Mr
Gurra losing cases or that it
was carried out by rivals to
the Capja gang.
‘It is a working theory that
those behind his murder were
angry about perceived legal
failures,’ said the source, add-
ing: ‘It’s well known that Ravik
Gurra was close to the Capjas
and connected members of
the gang in Britain to those
in Albania.
‘The Capjas are very diffi-
cult to get at, so it may be a
rival clan murdered Mr Gurra
to send a message and because
he was an easier target.’
Albanian-born Mr Gurra
moved to the UK in the 1990s
where he settled with his solic-
itor wife and gained British
citizenship. His neighbours
last night described him as a
friendly, family man.
One said: ‘He always came
over for a chat and he would
talk about the football.’
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