Thread: British Expats wanted in Spain

Police today issued their latest rogues gallery of wanted British expats hiding in Spain's 'Costa del Crime'.
Investigators are hunting murderers, a sex offender, a 'high-risk' paedophile and a drug trafficker hiding there. They are urging British expats to turn the criminals in.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency have so far tracked down 46 out of 60 wanted criminals in Spain since the launch of Operation Captura five years ago.
Crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers has joined forces with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in the campaign.
Lord Ashcroft, founder of Crimestoppers, said: 'A small number of suspected criminals see Spain as a safe place to evade law enforcement but, thanks to the confidence the UK, Spanish and expat communities have in Crimestoppers, these individuals will not be able to escape justice for much longer.'
Andy Baker, deputy director of SOCA said they were confident that expats could help them track down the latest gallery of suspects.
He said:'Operation Captura has proved immensely successful, not only in aiding the arrest of individuals attempting to hide amongst the expat community in Spain, but also as a means of raising the profile of these individuals and making Spain a hostile environment for British criminals.' Soca and Crimestoppers are appealing for help finding these 10 suspects.

Dominic Stephen Powell, 48, from Coventry

The high-risk sex offender is wanted in relation to a string of allegations of child abuse attacks and making indecent images. He is also on the run having been convicted for failing to notify authorities of foreign travel.

Powell, who has been jailed in the past for paedophile offences, is wanted by South Wales Police.

Simon Dutton, 34, from Bolton

A suspected drug trafficker linked to the importation of cocaine from Spain for sale in North-West England. He is wanted following a joint operation between Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Soca.

Drugs with a street value in excess of £1,600,000 have been seized as part of the operation. (photos below)




Kirk Bradley, 26, and Tony Downes, 25, both from Liverpool

The men escaped from a prison van in Manchester on their way to Liverpool Crown Court where they were to stand trial for conspiracy to possess firearms to endanger life and conspiracy to damage property with intent to endanger life.

They are both wanted by Merseyside Police and said to be 'dangerous and violent'.









Andrew Terrence Moran, 29, Salford, Manchester

Vaulted over the dock and fled the country in 2009 as he went on trial for carrying out a £25,000 armed robbery of Royal Mail guards.

He was convicted in his absence for the 'cash in transit theft' in 2005 in Colne, Lancashire.

Moran fled the courtroom in Burnley when the judge stated he intended to remand him in custody.

Derek McGraw Ferguson - also known as William Murdoch Henderson - 47, from Glasgow

He is wanted over the murder of Thomas Cameron in 2007 at the Auchinairn Tavern, Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow.

Ferguson has a string of distinguishing marks including tattoos of an arrow and a dagger and a chunk missing from his left ear.

Strathclyde Police say he is considered dangerous.




William 'Buff' Thomas Robert Paterson, 32, from Glasgow

Wanted over the murder of Kevin Carroll, who was repeatedly shot in the car park of an Asda supermarket in Robroyston, Glasgow.

Criminal Carroll, dubbed Scotland's 'public enemy number one', was blasted 10 times by masked gunmen outside the superstore in Robroyston. Paterson is said to be dangerous and violent.

Allan James Foster - also known as Shaun Michael Wilkinson - 39, from South Shields

Foster is accused of murdering David 'Noddy' Rice in a car park in Marsden Bay in 2006.

Foster is also wanted for two offences of conspiring to supply controlled drugs and for the theft of a diamond ring.

He has links to the Canary Islands and Majorca.

see what i mean about northerners?