Villa death suspect is heroin dealer’s son

Cormac O’Keeffe and Owen Conlon

Paul Hickey, 28, from north Dublin, is due in court today in connection with the death of his partner in their holiday villa near Alicante.

Hickey, using his mother’s name, had to be restrained and sedated after he violently resisted police arrest at the couple’s holiday home in the town of San Fulgencio, south of Alicante on the popular Costa Blanca coast.