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-Come on! -On the run. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
-Get back here! -And over here. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Hands out now. Hands out! | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
When foreign criminals flee their home countries, many hide out in the UK. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:14 | |
-Give me your hands. -But if they think they're safe, they're wrong. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
They know they're wanted. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals also trying to escape justice. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:32 | |
From the sun-drenched Costas, to the busy streets of the Dutch capital... | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
..this is how the police take down the fugitives... | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
Police officer. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:45 | |
..both at home and abroad. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Coming up on today's programme... | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
It's an early start for the Metropolitan Police's extradition team, | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
searching for a vicious man hiding from the law. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
He is wanted for an assault back home in Lithuania. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
There's a big knife there. You just never know what's going to happen, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
so you've just got to be aware of what's around you. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
In Leeds, the family man guilty of petty theft... | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Three offences of shoplifting. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:19 | |
..having to face the fact that crime doesn't pay. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Quite a tragedy for that family, but he brought it upon himself. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:27 | |
Over 12,000 fugitives from other European countries are thought to be hiding out in the UK. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
Many choose to live amongst London's population of almost nine million. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
Catching them is the work of the Metropolitan Police's extradition unit, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
a dedicated team of almost 30 detectives. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
We don't want criminals thinking | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
that the UK is a safe haven for them to come to. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
And, of course, if you've got somebody who's committing burglary | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
or robbery or a serious sex offender, the likelihood is | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
they're going to be committing that crime here in the UK. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
Today, like every day, detectives from the extradition unit | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
have a long list of European arrest warrants to serve. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
On the early shift, DCs Jamie Darby and Dave Salmon | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
are on their way to Newham in East London. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
The first fugitive they're after, Jose Trigo Raul, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
has already been found guilty of a violent crime. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
I think he's from Angola originally. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
He's wanted by Portugal for a European arrest warrant. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
Armed robbery and assault with a knife. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
And he's got a six-year sentence to serve. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
The wanted man has been found guilty of 11 offences, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
many of them violent. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
The officers need to be careful. | 0:02:58 | 0:02:59 | |
When they arrive, Jamie deploys his team to cover all the exits. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
Tom, this is the address just here on the corner. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Number 2. If you don't mind, would you stand on the corner? | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
-Yeah. -If you hear anyone come out the back, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
Officer Willis is just going to be just here. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
-Just give us a quick shout. -Yeah, sure. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
We're going to knock on the door, me, Dave and Ed, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
and we'll see who comes to the door and take it from there, OK? | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
-Okey doke. -OK. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
A lot of foreign national offenders, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
they are up and out very early in the morning. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
So we have found that doing a very early morning call | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
enables us to often get people in. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
Whereas if we go later during the day, they're not going to be there. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
In this case, the early start pays off. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
It is 5.50am in the morning and there's obviously someone at home. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
Morning. Police officers. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
-Oh, hi. -Who lives here, my friend? | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
-Me and my son. -The man who answers isn't their target. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
He's only recently moved in... | 0:04:07 | 0:04:08 | |
..but Jamie spots some letters addressed to the fugitive. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
Who are the letters for? Can I have a look? Do you mind? | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
-Yeah. -Has anyone ever come round to pick any letters up or anything? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
-No, no. -The officers seize the letters, | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
hoping they'll provide vital information about Raul's location. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:25 | |
He obviously lived there at some time because he's got lots of post | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
in his name, so it's obviously an old address. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
The officers that I have in the extradition unit | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
are very, very experienced and I think over the years | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
they have learnt that if you go in | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
and treat people with respect in the way that they should be, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
you get a much better response from the occupants of the building. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
And it means that they will cooperate with you as well, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
more often than not. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:54 | |
Often you'll get some information that will give you new leads, | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
so that we're able to progress that investigation. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
Although this fugitive remains on the run for now, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
the team already have another criminal in their sights. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Next on the list is a wanted man who has fled from Lithuania. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
It's a gentleman wanted for theft and actual bodily harm. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
We have some intel from the Department for Work and Pensions that he's... | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
So we're going to give it a knock. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
Lithuania have sent over an image. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
The fugitive, Lithuanian Eligijus Petrikonis, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
has been found guilty of fraud and assault back home. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
So he's got a remaining sentence of two years and three months to serve... | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
..and it looks like he was sentenced in his absence. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
So he's fled Lithuania... | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
..and he's popped up over here. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
From the information on the warrant, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
it looks like another potentially dangerous job. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
You just think about who's going to be in the flat. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
You can knock on a door and there can be one person in there, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
or you can have about six or seven people come out of different rooms. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Especially when we knock on the doors, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
there's normally only two or three of us, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
so you've got to be aware of who is going to be at the address. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
You go and knock on the door of someone who's wanted for GBH | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
or a robbery where a knife's been used, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
you think a bit more about it. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
Later, the team face a race across town during rush hour | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
to get to Petrikonis's last-known address before he leaves for the day. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
He's got to know that he's got this prison sentence to serve back in Lithuania, | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
so he's going to be anxious to not be caught. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
Amsterdam. The Dutch capital, with its bars, cafes and canals | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
has long been popular with tourists. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
It's also a magnet for criminals and fugitives from British justice. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:09 | |
But Dutch police are fighting back. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
The serious and organised crime team in the capital is headed by this man - Jeroen Poelert. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:19 | |
Amsterdam is a very nice place to live and to visit, | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
and we are proud of that. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
And Amsterdam for criminals, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
it's also a capital for the organised crime. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
Sometimes they have guns, sometimes they have problems between each other, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
so our main thing is that we worry about kidnapping and murders. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:43 | |
That's why we have a strong focus to catch them. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
Amsterdam is a favoured bolthole for criminals on the run from the Liverpool area. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
One dangerous fugitive who took that route was notorious Merseyside gangster James Taylor. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:03 | |
Taylor was known to the police. He had some convictions. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
He had minor convictions for theft. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
He had convictions for possessing an imitation firearm, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
public order, and threatening behaviour. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
His nickname amongst Liverpool's criminal fraternity was Pancake, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
due to his habit of flipping out. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
He is known across Merseyside and because of the nickname, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:33 | |
there is this myth around him in terms of... | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
..who he was and what he was about. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
In October 2010, Pancake Taylor lived up to his nickname. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:47 | |
With the help of two others, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
he carried out a vicious revenge attack on a rival he'd fought | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
while in prison. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
Taylor and his gang stormed a Liverpool kebab shop, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
armed to the teeth and ready to cause carnage. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
The victim tried to hold the gang off, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
but they forced their way in and chased him upstairs. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
James Taylor is the second male up the stairs. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
And they are going after one individual. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
It's a cowardly attack, three against one. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
They clearly know who he is and what they want to do to him. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
He received laceration wounds. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
He was lucky that he didn't get more serious injuries. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
During the frenzied attack, Taylor's hood fell down, revealing his face. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
This myth around how good these people are as being organised criminals, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
well, actually, it's that arrogance that ultimately led to us identifying him. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
Merseyside Police launched a manhunt for the gang. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
Although they captured one of his accomplices, | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
there was no sign of Pancake. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
A number of search warrants were executed. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
He wasn't at his home address. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:01 | |
He wasn't at his family addresses. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
There was no information, no sightings of him, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
nothing to suggest that he was still in the Merseyside area. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
So all that points towards the fact that he'd gone, he'd left, he'd fled. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
Pancake had seemingly disappeared. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
Merseyside Police made a number of public appeals to try and locate him, | 0:10:18 | 0:10:23 | |
but it was a chance encounter 1,000 miles away, | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
which would provide a vital lead. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
We had a number of Merseyside Police officers who were away on holiday in Spain | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
and they thought that they'd possibly sighted him. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
That obviously then prompts me and the investigative team | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
to do a number of enquiries with that country. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Now the hunt for Taylor spanned borders, | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
his case became a priority for the National Crime Agency. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
Rob Bennett is the operations manager at the agency's International Crime Bureau. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:06 | |
In the case of Taylor, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
he was spotted by two Merseyside Police officers in Spain. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
So for them and for law enforcement as a whole, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
it was a valuable spot of Taylor because A, we knew he was abroad, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
but B, we also knew that he was in Spain. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
So it was useful for both Merseyside and obviously us, | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
because we then knew where we could target our searches in the first instance. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
But Taylor wasn't hanging around to be found. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
NCA officers began to suspect the fugitive had moved on | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
and was now hiding out in Amsterdam. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
There was various pieces of intelligence that suggested that, | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
but real corroboration was given to that when we looked at the travel of his girlfriend, of his partner, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
who was travelling over to Amsterdam quite regularly. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
There was some indication he was in other countries, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
so we did look into those links as well, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
but it was the Netherlands that kept on coming through | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
as the likely contender as to where he was. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
By now, Pancake Taylor had been at large for three years. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:05 | |
With all signs showing he was somewhere in Europe's fugitive capital, Amsterdam - | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
it was time for the Dutch police to join the hunt. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
But would they be able to track him down after so long on the run? | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
In West Yorkshire, large towns and cities like Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
attract their fair share of foreign offenders on the run. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
Finding them is a priority for the police. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
The people who try to evade justice in Europe | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
by hiding in the communities of West Yorkshire | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
are a risk to the people in West Yorkshire. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Those offenders do not come to West Yorkshire | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
to resettle and rehabilitate. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
They come firstly to escape justice in the country where they are wanted | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
and then they come to West Yorkshire as an unknown commodity, | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
but proficient in committing crime. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Tonight, police officers Dave Lockwood and Tom Allen are looking for a man | 0:13:06 | 0:13:11 | |
wanted for relatively minor crimes. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
His name is Tomas Dzurko. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
He was caught stealing several packs of batteries and other goods | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
from shops in the Czech Republic on three separate occasions. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but went on the run instead. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:30 | |
So this lad we're looking for, he's from the Czech Republic. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
Wanted for three offences of shoplifting. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
The intelligence that links him to this address was from... | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
..15th of January 2016. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
They head off to Leeds to see if the man they are after is at home. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
This one with the light, I think. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:01 | |
Lass looking at us out of the window. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
When they arrive at the property, | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
they're met at the door by a woman who is clearly heavily pregnant | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
and a man who looks very much like their fugitive. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
-Hello. -Hello, are you OK? | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
-What's your name, pal? -Tomas. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
-What's your date of birth, please? -14.03. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
Yep. What year? | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
1980. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
OK, Tomas. I can see you've got your missus and child here with you, | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
but I've got some bad news for you, I'm afraid. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
There's a warrant been issued for your arrest from the Czech Republic. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
OK? Do you know about this? | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
Do you understand what I'm saying to you? | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
-Why? -Why? | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
The Czech Republic are saying you've committed three offences | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
in 2012, OK? And they'd like to see you extradited | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
back to the Czech Republic for them. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:54 | |
Chill out, all right? | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
We're not going to rush you straight out of here. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
We'll let you take care of things that you need to take care of. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
Talk to your missus, OK? | 0:15:02 | 0:15:03 | |
But you're now under arrest for a European arrest warrant for three offences of shoplifting. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
So you do not have to say anything... | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
The arrest is clearly a shock for Tomas Dzurko. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
He thought he'd made a new life for himself, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
his pregnant wife and young son, | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
but now the crimes he committed back home in the Czech Republic | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
have caught up with him. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
-I know it's... -I go from prison here? -I don't know yet. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
You're going to be coming with me tonight to the police station, OK? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
-You're going to be going to London tomorrow. -London tomorrow? | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
To court. And I don't know what is going to happen after that. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
-Hello. -You, you, you... | 0:15:37 | 0:15:38 | |
Neither the wanted man, nor his pregnant wife, speak much English, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
so a friend is called to translate. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
-Have you got some ID, please? -But Dave needs to check who he is, too. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
-My ID? -Yeah. If I'm going to start talking to you | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
and explaining what's happening, I want to know who I'm talking to. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
-What happened? -I'll tell you in a minute, once I've got your ID, OK? | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
With her second child due imminently, | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
the shoplifter's wife now faces an uncertain future. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
The time you give me for my wife and my son? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
Five, ten minutes is reasonable, yeah? | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
What's happened is Czech have issued a warrant for your arrest, OK? | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
-Explain this to him. -Can I... Speak slowly, yeah? | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
The Czech Republic have issued a warrant for his arrest. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
As his friend explains, | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
the wanted man starts to realise that he's in real trouble. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
-PAT CASSERLY: -People are responsible for their actions and there are consequences, | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
and the consequence of Tomas's criminality | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
and absconding and failing to present himself | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
answerable to justice means that at some stage, he gets caught. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:47 | |
There's never a good time, and on this occasion, yeah, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
quite a tragedy for that family, | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
but he brought it upon himself and that's a consequence for Tomas. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
Telephone number 101. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
If tomorrow night you're worried he hasn't come home, OK, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
we'll be able to tell you what's happened. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
Right, we're going to go to the police station now. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
-Are you happy we've got everything? -Yeah. -Right, come on then. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
Say your goodbyes, OK? | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
Dzurko's taken to the police station in handcuffs, | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
leaving his wife at home. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
Just take a seat here, Tomas. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
What started as a petty crime has become a very big problem | 0:17:32 | 0:17:37 | |
as he faces being sent away from the UK and from his family. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
A dangerous criminal with a history of violence, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
Pancake Taylor, topped the list of Merseyside Police's most wanted | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
after a vicious attack in a Liverpool kebab shop, | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
which left his victim severely injured. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
But after more than three years on the run, | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
police tracked him via Spain to the Netherlands. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
We don't like people who are here with bad intentions. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
And... | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
that's why we are very focused on especially the British criminals, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
who like Amsterdam for a safe haven. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
And we catch a lot of people. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
British intelligence sources sent their colleagues in Amsterdam | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
an image of Taylor. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
In response, Dutch police deployed officers around the city | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
who specialise in facial recognition. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
One of those officers spoke to us. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
We can't reveal his identity because he is still undercover | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
and active in the city. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
Once he'd seen a picture of Taylor, the hunt was on. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
This officer spent the next two years scanning every face he came across | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
before he finally spotted the British criminal | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
he'd committed to memory. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
After more than three years on the run, | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
they finally had a confirmed sighting of Pancake Taylor. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
The next problem for the Dutch police was how to safely arrest | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
this dangerous and vicious gangster. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
6am in East London and detectives Dave Salmon and Jamie Derby | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
are on their way to arrest a Lithuanian man. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
Eligijus Petrikonis was convicted in his home country | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
for a serious assault. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
He's also used his mother's financial details to commit a fraud. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
He's been sentenced to two years and three months back in Lithuania. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
He's got to know he's got this prison sentence to serve back in Lithuania, | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
so he's going to be anxious to not be caught. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Although it's still early in the morning, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
London's traffic is starting to build. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
The detectives have a 30-minute drive across the capital | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
to get to the wanted man's last-known address | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
before he goes out for the day. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
The clock is ticking. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
Finally, they arrive at the property. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
The house they are looking for is in darkness. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
No-one seems to be home. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
But when Jamie rings the doorbell, it's answered quickly. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
-Oh, good morning. Sorry to bother you. Police officers. -Good morning. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
We've got to speak to the people in there. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
Can I come in and knock on the door? | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
-Just going to have to speak to the people who live here. -All right. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Where do we start - upstairs? Is there anyone in here? | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
He's at work, I think, now. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
What's his name? | 0:21:51 | 0:21:52 | |
The house is shared by several people, | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
and whoever lives downstairs has already left for work. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
Time to search upstairs. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
Hello? | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
-Hello, sir. -Good morning. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
Good morning. What's your name? | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
Have you any ID? Passport, anything like that? | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
Your date of birth? | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
They've found the man they're looking for. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
We've got a warrant here from Lithuania. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
It's to do with theft and an assault. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
I'm arresting you in relation to this European arrest warrant. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
But Jamie spots potential danger. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
Anything you do say may be given in evidence... | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
..cos there's a big knife there. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
I'm not going in there. Yeah, go on. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
All right. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:39 | |
Petrikonis, with his history of violence, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
is kept well away from the serrated blade and other knives and tools spotted in the wardrobe. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:48 | |
He's handcuffed, just to make sure. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
You go first. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
'When you go into like a small bedsit like that, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
'you've got to be aware of what's around you.' | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
Because obviously you don't know who they are, | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
they've never come to notice before. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
Obviously, he's wanted for an assault back home in Lithuania, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
so you just never know what's going to happen to you, | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
so you've just got to be aware of what's around you. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
It's been a good morning's work. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
A fugitive with a violent past has been safely arrested. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
Petrikonis is now on his way to custody, | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
facing an appearance in court and a journey back to prison in Lithuania. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
Back in the Netherlands, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
officers from Amsterdam's serious crime unit | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
launched a major surveillance operation | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
after a dangerous British criminal was spotted by one of their super-recognisers. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
This undercover officer, who we've agreed to film anonymously, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
identified notorious Liverpool gangster Pancake Taylor | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
coming out of a local gym. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
Known as Pancake for his history of flipping, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
this thug was wanted for a long list of violent crimes, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
including this frenzied attack, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
which left his victim with nasty injuries. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
As Taylor was known to be dangerous and possibly armed, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
Dutch police had to patiently plan how they'd carry out the arrest. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:37 | |
First, they secretly followed him and the people he associated with. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
You want to do other things than just arresting people | 0:24:43 | 0:24:47 | |
because we know that those people are not only hiding here, | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
they're also in business, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:52 | |
and that's the main problem of those people - | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
they're still dealing in drugs, for example. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
Detectives tracked Taylor to an expensive apartment | 0:25:00 | 0:25:04 | |
in an upmarket area of Amsterdam. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
They also discovered where his closest associates lived | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
and planned coordinated strikes with the elite Dutch SWAT team. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
Police patiently watched the house for three days | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
until the SWAT team observed Taylor cycling home from the gym | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
and decided it was the perfect strike opportunity. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
A dramatic moment the police managed to catch on camera. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
The most sensible place to arrest him was on his bike, | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
in broad daylight, where he would have no access to firearms, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
no access to other individuals who could assist him, | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
so for them it made perfect sense, really, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
to take him out in such a public way. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
With Taylor under arrest, | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
the Amsterdam police called their colleagues in Merseyside | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
to let them know the operation had been a success. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
To get that call to say, "Yes, we've identified him, we've got him, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
"he's in custody in Holland", was fantastic, fantastic news. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
As a cop, as a policeman, that's the type of news that you want to hear. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
A search of Taylor's apartment | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
and of the homes of three of his associates | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
revealed more evidence of their criminal lifestyle. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
We did a house search and we found weapons, two weapons, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
and also drugs - cocaine - | 0:26:50 | 0:26:53 | |
and a lot of money, and that is typical for those people. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:58 | |
And when you look to the whole picture, those friends, | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
they all had apartments and in total the four of them paid | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
about 10,000 euros a month to rent a house, | 0:27:05 | 0:27:11 | |
and in total we seized about nine firearms. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:16 | |
With the mountain of evidence against him, | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
Taylor was extradited back to the UK to finally face justice. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
Do you know what? Law enforcement across the world, | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
we are really, really good at actually finding these people | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
and bringing them to justice. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
So there was that real sense of pride of a job well done | 0:27:34 | 0:27:38 | |
and doing something that the community in Merseyside | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
expect us to do. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
And for most of us, that's why we come to work. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
It might take a few months, it might take a few years, | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
but eventually we will catch up with you | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
and we will bring you back to justice. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
In court, the judge took a dim view of James "Pancake" Taylor's attempts | 0:27:59 | 0:28:04 | |
to evade justice. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
He was finally sent to prison for nine and a half years. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
At his hearing, shoplifter Tomas Dzurko | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
was granted bail by the extradition court. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
He absconded but was then arrested for assaulting a child on a train. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:22 | |
After pleading guilty, he fled home to the Czech Republic | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
before he could be sentenced in the UK. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
He was arrested by Czech police in February 2017. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:33 | |
And just three weeks after his arrest in East London, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
violent fraudster Eligijus Petrikonis | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
was sent back to Lithuania, | 0:28:41 | 0:28:43 | |
where he'll serve the rest of his jail sentence. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 |