Pictured: Brit fugitive who beat German tourist to death in Costa del Sol bar fight eight years ago – as he’s sent back to Spain to serve 14-month prison sentence

• Ross Moore punched Ingo Dewitz three times in the face before victim collapsed

A British fugitive who beat a German tourist to death in a bar fight eight years ago has been pictured as he is sent back to Spain to serve his prison sentence.

Ross Moore will spend 14 months behind bars after he killed 46-year-old Ingo Dewitz in an argument at The Captain’s Bar in La Cala de Mijas near Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, in July 2015.

The 38-year-old punched the German three times in the face on July 16, 2015, with the victim later collapsing and dying.

The builder, from Colchester, was given a 14-month prison sentence fo manslaughter in 2020, but it was suspended after he agreed to pay Mr Dewitz’s family and the court £130,000 over two years.

But the father-of-two has since failed to pay, and earlier this month a judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court declared him a fugitive after a Spanish arrest warrant was issued.

Ross Moore, pictured outside his home in Colchester, Essex, has been sent to Spain to serve a 14-month prison sentence after killing a man in a bar fight eight years ago

Moore beat German tourist Ingo Dewitz to death at The Captain’s Bar (pictured) in Cala de Mijas near Fuengirola in Costa del Sol 

According to reports at the time of the fatal fight, two men had tried to resuscitate the German before fleeing in a car with a UK number plate.

Two British men, including Moore who was a expat at the time, were arrested afterwards. He was later charged over Mr Dewitz’s death.

Moore, who was detained at his flat Essex this April, fought his extradition and claimed the victim’s death was an accident.

‘He died in my arms. I got scared and ran. I was simply trying to do the right things and stand up for another person as the victim was causing trouble,’ he said in a statement seen by the Mirror.

Moore also said his life was in danger following death threats from Spanish and Portuguese gangs, but the District judge Sara-Jane Griffiths dismissed this claim due to a lack of evidence.

District judge Sarah-Jane Griffiths wrote in her judgement that there was a ‘strong public interest’ in England following its obligations under the international extradition treaty. 

She added: ‘[Moore’s] extradition is sought in relation to a serious allegation, namely manslaughter. I am satisfied to the necessary standard that there are no bars to this extradition request.’

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