Karen Rice from the Mail Online has written an extensive article on late legendary guitarist GARY MOORE and his girlfriend Petra Nioduschewski who he was last seen with at the five-star Kempinski resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain.

Petra who shared Moore's €600,000 house in Hove, a seaside suburb of Brighton, and she who shared the last, by all accounts blissful, two years of his life. It was she who found his lifeless body last Sunday (February 6th) and struggled desperately to resuscitate him; she who coped with the grim formalities of death certificates, post-mortems and police.

The twice-married ex-THIN LIZZY guitarist's family, including his brother, Cliff, flew in on Tuesday. They spent an hour over coffee with Petra, while she explained the complexities of repatriating his body from Spain to Britain.

Then they decamped to Malaga, 75km away - taking Gary's body, his suitcase and even his guitar with them, and leaving the 35-year-old German on her own.

Following a brief session at the Kempinski hotel bar last Saturday night (February 5th), the 58-year-old guitarist stopped breathing, after apparently suffering a heart attack in his room. Petra desperately tried to resuscitate him before calling for help but the musician was already cold. At around four o'clock in the morning, she called for help and a security guard went to the room and found Gary on the bed in his underpants. He tried to pump his heart but he was already cold. She was in a bathrobe, completely shocked. She had tried to resuscitate him before the security guard got there. When the ambulance came, they didn't try to shock his heart because he was already gone.

Now Petra waits alone for word of when Gary's body can be released and she can go home. His family must now sort out the legal affairs of the multimillionaire whose fortune will no doubt be divided between his first wife, with whom he had two sons, Jack and Gus, and whose marriage ended in 1993, and his second wife and their teenage daughter, Lily. Moore was careful with his money, even parsimonious.

Despite having an estimated €23million income from his two London-based companies, Moore was only giving himself a yearly wage of €44,000 at the time of his death - €15,800 from Bonuswise and €28,200 from Orionstar, from a combined annual turnover of €1.76million.

His guitar collection, including his cherished Les Pauls, was valued at around €235,000. Then there was the Hove house he shared with Petra, believed to have been bought last November for €600,000.

Read the entire article and view photos here.