Peter O’Toole, known locally as Cara de Niño - ‘Babyface’, not guilty of trying to kill a tourist in February 2002.

The Málaga Provincial Court has found the Briton, Peter O’Toole, known locally as Cara de Niño - ‘Babyface’, not guilty of trying to kill a tourist in February 2002.

The case was held in high security, but the court finally considered that there was not enough evidence to prove that O’Toole fired the gun on the terrace of Looney’s Irish Pub in Benalmádena. The victim is now quadriplegic.

The case was based on a single witness but he declared in court that he could not identify O’Toole as the aggressor.
Curiously all the other witnesses to the shooting have since died or are in whereabouts unknown.

The Court notes that O’Toole himself did not any ‘convincing’ version in his defence. He admitted he had been in the bar, and did not explain why he left Spain the next day.

But the sentence says there is not enough evidence against him and a description of the attacker given by the bar owner was not a good match to O’Toole.

‘Baby Face’ is currently serving life imprisonment for two attacks in the UK, one victim was killed and a second survived.