0:00:02 > 0:00:05- Come on!- On the run... - Get back here !
0:00:05 > 0:00:06..and over here.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Hands out now. Hands out.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11When foreign criminals flee their home countries,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14many hide out in the UK.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Give me your hands.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17But if they think they're safe, they're wrong.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19They know they're wanted.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals
0:00:29 > 0:00:32also trying to escape justice.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34From the sun-drenched Costas
0:00:34 > 0:00:37to the busy streets of the Dutch capital...
0:00:38 > 0:00:41..this is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:00:41 > 0:00:43You're under arrest under the Extradition Act.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Police officer.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47..both at home and abroad.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00On today's programme - on the run for seven years.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02How the man who made a dramatic escape
0:01:02 > 0:01:07from a British courtroom was found by fugitive hunters in Spain.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11They told me he was a crazy man, so if you find him,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14just be really careful with this guy.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15In Coventry...
0:01:15 > 0:01:16KNOCKING
0:01:16 > 0:01:20..it's time for this murderer to pack up and leave.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22Being dealt with for a murder in Poland
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and that's why we've been notified that the Home Office
0:01:25 > 0:01:27no longer wish him to be in the UK.
0:01:31 > 0:01:38In London, Detective Sergeant Pete Rance and his team from the Extradition Unit are out
0:01:38 > 0:01:42trying to catch foreign ciminals wanted in other European countries.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Hello. It's the police. Can you open the door, please?
0:01:47 > 0:01:53The nation that sends out the highest number of arrest warrants is Poland.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54If I was to hazard a guess
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and look at the work that comes across my desk
0:01:57 > 0:01:58on a week-to-week basis,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I would probably say 60-70% of the cases
0:02:01 > 0:02:06that I receive are Polish European Arrest Warrants.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11And that's exactly what Pete and his team are doing this morning.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14The fella we're looking for is a fella called Przemyslaw Ratajczyk
0:02:14 > 0:02:17who is wanted in Poland for fraud offences.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Everything... All the checks we've done
0:02:21 > 0:02:23indicate that he could well be at this address.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27He has got another family member living with him there.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Ratajczyk has been convicted for producing and selling
0:02:32 > 0:02:36counterfeit CDs and DVDs and given a ten-month prison sentence.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46The investigation has led Pete and his team to this apartment block
0:02:46 > 0:02:49and they're about to find out if the intelligence is on the money.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Big dog.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54BARKING
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Not my favourite thing!
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Hello, sir, sorry to trouble you. My name is Pete Rance,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10I'm a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police.
0:03:10 > 0:03:11- Say again?- My name's Peter Rance,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I'm a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Is it possible to come and speak to you?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It is still only quarter to six in the morning
0:03:19 > 0:03:23and with the man's brother looking on, Pete makes his enquiries.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Is this you?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- Probably, yes.- It is you, OK.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Mr Ratajczyk, Poland has issued a European Arrest Warrant
0:03:35 > 0:03:39for your arrest. You are wanted for fraud offences in Poland.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42OK? Because of that...
0:03:43 > 0:03:46..you are under arrest on the European Arrest Warrant.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48You do not have to say anything,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50but anything you do say may be given in evidence, OK?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53You can be charged with an offence of fraud over there.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- OK? Do you understand? - Yes, yes.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Sorry, there are no lights, it's dark.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04When you get in, you just need to put your seatbelt on, all right?
0:04:05 > 0:04:09It's a relatively low-level fraud offence this guy is wanted for,
0:04:09 > 0:04:11but he has got ten months in prison to serve
0:04:11 > 0:04:13if his extradition is ordered.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16So the proceedings will start today and he will find out shortly
0:04:16 > 0:04:20whether he is to be extradited or whether there is a case for him
0:04:20 > 0:04:21to remain in the UK.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Extradition cases like this can take many months
0:04:26 > 0:04:28to go through the courts.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32But Pete's job is to simply find the person named on the warrant,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35no matter what they're wanted for.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Certain countries will issue requests
0:04:37 > 0:04:39for relatively minor offences,
0:04:39 > 0:04:44other countries will only issue them for serious offences.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48But as an extradition unit, we work on a sort of bilateral basis
0:04:48 > 0:04:51and if they've seen fit to issue the warrant,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54we have a duty and an obligation to execute it
0:04:54 > 0:04:57if we can locate and identify them.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02With the work of the extradition unit done,
0:05:02 > 0:05:06it remains for the judge to decide if Ratajczyk is to be sent back home
0:05:06 > 0:05:08to Poland to serve his sentence.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18This is Andrew Moran, a dangerous armed robber.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21After a dramatic escape from his own trial,
0:05:21 > 0:05:23he thought he could stay on the run forever.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28But seven years of determined policing at home and abroad
0:05:28 > 0:05:30led to a dramatic arrest,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33a lesson for all fugitives.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37People run, but increasingly with the use of modern technologies,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40there really isn't anywhere to hide any more, and we will get you.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43We'll find you. We'll bring you back.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45There is no hiding place.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52It all started on a May morning in 2005
0:05:52 > 0:05:54at an Asda store in Colne, Lancashire.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Two men arrived in the car park on a motorbike
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and staged a violent robbery.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06Their target was this Royal Mail cash delivery van.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12They were armed with machetes, using them to attack one of the guards,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15injuring his arms and shoulders.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17They also threatened him with a gun.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21During the attack, he thought he was going to die.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24That he was either going to be shot or that the blows with the machete
0:06:24 > 0:06:26were going to kill him. The robbers threatened to kill him
0:06:26 > 0:06:29while they were demanding money from the back of the van
0:06:29 > 0:06:30and in order to get his colleague
0:06:30 > 0:06:35to pass the cash out, one told the other one just to shoot him.
0:06:35 > 0:06:41Fearing for his life, the guard handed over £25,000.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45The men sped away on their bike, but it was soon abandoned.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48We had a starting point then with the motorbike that had been found.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55DNA evidence on the bike led them to a known criminal whose phone records
0:06:55 > 0:06:59then revealed that the second robber was someone nicknamed Faggy,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02but detectives needed to know his real name.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Nobody knew who Faggy was,
0:07:07 > 0:07:09which seemed really unusual from my point of view.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12If it's somebody that's attacking Royal Mail vans
0:07:12 > 0:07:15with guns and machetes, you would think it would be somebody
0:07:15 > 0:07:18that's come across the radar of the police somewhere
0:07:18 > 0:07:21and that somebody would know this person called Faggy.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24But at least they had his phone number
0:07:24 > 0:07:28and for 18 months, detectives monitored his calls.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31They began to suspect that the man behind the nickname
0:07:31 > 0:07:33was convicted criminal Andrew Moran.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37One frequently dialled number gave him away.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40We found a girl in the Manchester area
0:07:40 > 0:07:42that the phone rang all the time.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45She admitted that she was Andrew Moran's girlfriend.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50Andrew Moran was already well known to police elsewhere in the country.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56He'd been on the run for a number of years from Manchester,
0:07:56 > 0:07:58so our robbery that we wanted him for
0:07:58 > 0:08:01was added to the list of the other offences
0:08:01 > 0:08:03that he was already being sought for.
0:08:03 > 0:08:08The search went quiet until one day police happened to stop Moran
0:08:08 > 0:08:10on a Manchester street.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14He was carrying false details, but the officers were having none of it.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Once they tried to arrest him, he punched the officer in the face,
0:08:21 > 0:08:25ran away, but luckily they managed to chase after him, caught him.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32It was news the Lancashire team had been waiting for.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35To find out that he'd finally been arrested
0:08:35 > 0:08:37was really, really exciting.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40It was sort of like feeling that you're coming towards
0:08:40 > 0:08:43the end of the, erm...
0:08:43 > 0:08:47To a successful conclusion for the investigation.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50But the officers' high hopes would soon be dashed.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Seven weeks into his trial,
0:08:52 > 0:08:56the armed robber made a dramatic bid for freedom.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01It had taken police four years to get into court.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03How long would it take to track him down again?
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Every November, British police team up with the European forces
0:09:14 > 0:09:17to run a special operation targeting foreign offenders
0:09:17 > 0:09:21using the UK's transport links.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24What's great is the information and intelligence sharing.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27So if we stop a foreign driver in the UK today,
0:09:27 > 0:09:30we've got the whole range of countries that we can check their
0:09:30 > 0:09:31intelligence databases.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36The UK's central hub is in Birmingham where police,
0:09:36 > 0:09:40immigration and tax officers deal with queries.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42It might be something just as simple
0:09:42 > 0:09:44as are we able to get an image of the person
0:09:44 > 0:09:48so that that can be compared with the person that the officer
0:09:48 > 0:09:50stopped at the roadside.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Or it might be that we need to know if they have any foreign convictions
0:09:54 > 0:09:58that obviously we can't just check with our systems in the UK.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03It's also about catching foreign criminals
0:10:03 > 0:10:05on the move around the country.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Yeah, it is a live warrant.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11He is wanted for currency fraud in Czechoslovakia,
0:10:11 > 0:10:12so you can go ahead and arrest him.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Away from the control centre,
0:10:17 > 0:10:22Sergeant Adam Jobson is one of the operations officers on the ground,
0:10:22 > 0:10:26tracking down men and women wanted by European police forces.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32You've seen someone go in, have you?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Recently, it's been tough going
0:10:34 > 0:10:36and he's been unable to track down some of his targets.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40It sounds like he has spoken to you since you've been at this address.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45Now he's in Coventry and his latest job is to help local police
0:10:45 > 0:10:48catch a man who has a dangerous criminal past -
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Slawomir Mielczarek.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55He's been dealt with for a murder in Poland whereby a drunken night out
0:10:55 > 0:10:58he's been one of three people who got into a fight
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and they've ended up killing someone.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Mielczarek served his time for the killing in Poland,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07but since coming over to the UK,
0:11:07 > 0:11:11he's been in trouble with the police again on a drugs charge.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15That's why we've done the checks with his own country
0:11:15 > 0:11:18and that's why we've been notified that the Home Office
0:11:18 > 0:11:20no longer wish him to be in the UK.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Approaching from front and back,
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Adam and the other officers moved in on Mielczarek's last known address.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Hello, it's the police.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33It's a lady at the door.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Someone else.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Hello, do you mind if we come in?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- What?- We're just looking for somebody. A gentleman.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Mind if we come in? Is that OK?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47OK, does this gentleman live here?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50I think it was his wife who answered the door to us.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52I think she was shocked to see the police.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55They may not have known it was coming,
0:11:55 > 0:11:57but I think reality soon sets in.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Hello.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Is he here? The man?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06We're inside now, I believe he is going to be here.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12Mielczarek is in and it looks like he's trapped upstairs.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Not yet, mate, if you just hang fire round there
0:12:16 > 0:12:18just in case he goes out the window or anything.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Do you speak English?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30No, just Polish.
0:12:30 > 0:12:31OK, Polish. We'll get you an interpreter.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34At the moment, you're under arrest.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38They have sent multiple officers as Mielczarek has a history of violence
0:12:38 > 0:12:40and has been caught by surprise.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41I'm going to handcuff him.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43I don't want him walking down the stairs
0:12:43 > 0:12:46uncuffed in case he tries to make a bolt out of the door.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Do you understand a little English?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52You are coming to the police station.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56You're all right. We're going to come down now.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58It's when the cuffs go on
0:12:58 > 0:13:01that the family realise the severity of the situation.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- WOMAN:- No!
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I don't want you to come downstairs.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Wait there one second.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11We are going to put some shoes and socks on now.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Just come down the stairs.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Yes, can you confirm the block is still in order to bring out the IPC?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22As we were leaving the address,
0:13:22 > 0:13:26family members were very upset because I think, as I say,
0:13:26 > 0:13:27the reality has set in,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31that there was a chance that this person would be deported.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33We'll explain at the station, OK?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Sometimes you feel bad. It's never nice to break up families.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44But ultimately, this person was convicted for murder.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48To me that person is dangerous and I have no problem separating people
0:13:48 > 0:13:51like that who aren't fit to be in our public in the UK.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Mielczarek is taken to Coventry police station
0:13:57 > 0:14:00so that police can double-check his identity.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Once they've confirmed that this is the man
0:14:03 > 0:14:06who's already served six years in prison for murder,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09then his deportation back to Poland can go ahead.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19In March 2009,
0:14:19 > 0:14:23after four years on the run, armed robber Andrew Moran was on trial
0:14:23 > 0:14:25at Burnley Crown Court.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Back in 2005,
0:14:28 > 0:14:31he and another man had attempted to rob a cash delivery van
0:14:31 > 0:14:34in a supermarket car park.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36It was a real painstaking trial.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37It lasted for seven weeks.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Andrew Moran did give evidence in his own trial.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44He came across as being very arrogant.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47He argued with the prosecution barrister,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50kept calling him "mate" and it was very difficult for the barrister
0:14:50 > 0:14:53to cross-examine because of his attitude towards him.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57He did come across, as I say, very arrogant and cocky.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03But as the jury prepared to return their verdict,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Moran leapt from the dock and escaped from court.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Andrew Moran assaulted the Group4 guard,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12jumped over the dock barrier and ran from the court,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14pursued by staff and police officers
0:15:14 > 0:15:18and Group4 security guards from the court, but managed to evade capture.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Moran disappeared.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28After four months of searching and with no sightings in the UK,
0:15:28 > 0:15:32it was time for the National Crime Agency to get involved.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35It has agents who specialise in tracking fugitives down
0:15:35 > 0:15:37wherever they are in the world.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42When they go abroad and they go underground,
0:15:42 > 0:15:46the only place that they can go to is amongst other crime groups
0:15:46 > 0:15:48and therefore often their criminality
0:15:48 > 0:15:50will start to rise and they will start
0:15:50 > 0:15:54to get into more high-profile types of activity.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58By the autumn of 2012,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00the UK's National Crime Agency
0:16:00 > 0:16:04had discovered that Moran's girlfriend was making regular trips
0:16:04 > 0:16:07to a remote village called Los Alcazares
0:16:07 > 0:16:09in the Murcia region of Spain.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15It was down to Olga Lizana,
0:16:15 > 0:16:19head of the Spanish police's fugitive unit, to track him down.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22I found the house but I didn't see him at that point
0:16:22 > 0:16:25but I saw his girlfriend.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27So we knew they were always together
0:16:27 > 0:16:29so we knew he was there.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Moran's hideout had been discovered at last.
0:16:32 > 0:16:37Armed officers prepared to capture him just as soon as he emerged
0:16:37 > 0:16:39from his rented villa.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Moran left the house driving a car,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43but we were not sure it was him.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47So we decided, OK, let's follow for a while.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Their chance came when Moran stopped the car.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53But he was determined not to be captured.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57So I crossed my car, trying to avoid him to escape.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01But there was a place close to there with one entrance and one exit.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03He drove into that place
0:17:03 > 0:17:06and we just tried to block the exit and the entrance.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10He hit the police cars, he escaped,
0:17:10 > 0:17:11and he just took the highway.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13After crashing into a police car,
0:17:13 > 0:17:18Moran sped away down the motorway running along the Spanish coastline.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23We were calling the police officer and also the tolls to tell them
0:17:23 > 0:17:25we're just following this car.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29We told them the plate and tried to stop the car
0:17:29 > 0:17:34but after 15km he just decided to leave the highway.
0:17:34 > 0:17:39At that time, Moran stopped the car, so we were just behind him.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43He didn't know what he was thinking or he was trying to do
0:17:43 > 0:17:47so I told my colleague, "If he opens the door, shoot him,"
0:17:47 > 0:17:50because we were sure Moran got a gun.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54Moran stayed in his car and, in a moment of madness,
0:17:54 > 0:17:58drove off down the wrong side of a dual carriageway.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02He just turned around, took the highway on the wrong way,
0:18:02 > 0:18:04and at that point I was following him
0:18:04 > 0:18:08but we realised he was a real danger for all the people driving.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13It's a busy highway, most cars are driving really fast,
0:18:13 > 0:18:15so it's like I made the decision,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17OK, let him go, we'll find him again.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Moran had made his escape once more.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25The villa he'd abandoned was searched.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30The fugitive had left plenty of incriminating evidence behind.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34We found some drugs, we found a gun in the kitchen,
0:18:34 > 0:18:39we found a few passports, because we knew he had, in the past,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42he had been using Irish passport,
0:18:42 > 0:18:46but that time we know he was using a false Lithuanian passport,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49so he was just going out to buy something,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51so he left all the stuff over there.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53I think clearly everyone who was involved on that day
0:18:53 > 0:18:56was disappointed with the outcome.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59You know, we had a location where he was at and he unfortunately
0:18:59 > 0:19:00managed to escape arrest.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03I'm sure the Spanish police would be equally as disappointed as we were,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05so, yeah, it was a bit disappointing
0:19:05 > 0:19:07for the team that were involved in tracking him down,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11but actually it just increased our determination to catch him.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Moran had again disappeared without trace.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20It would take another six months for Spanish and British police to find
0:19:20 > 0:19:24his new hideout, another luxury villa on the Costa Blanca.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28This time, there would be no escape.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38In Coventry, officers are out tracking down criminal offenders
0:19:38 > 0:19:40who have fled to the UK from overseas.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Earlier in the evening, Sergeant Adam Jobson and his team managed to
0:19:47 > 0:19:51locate a man wanted for breaching a deportation order.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Wait there one second.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Slawomir Mielczarek has already served six years
0:19:58 > 0:20:00in a Polish prison for murder.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Now, the Home Office wants him out of the UK.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10INDISTINCT
0:20:10 > 0:20:13When they are booking in foreign national offenders,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16custody staff have access to interpreters
0:20:16 > 0:20:18at the end of a phone line.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19INTERPRETER SPEAKS OVER PHONE
0:20:22 > 0:20:25It's not been long since Mielczarek was last in custody,
0:20:25 > 0:20:29when he was found in possession of ecstasy, and arrested.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32It was this that alerted the Home Office to his presence
0:20:32 > 0:20:34in the country and his criminal history
0:20:34 > 0:20:37and led to their decision to deport him.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- OK.- Kev, can we see how tall he is, please?- Yeah.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42He's already come across the police,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44and nothing's obviously been mentioned,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47so he probably hasn't even had a second thought about it,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50to be honest, and it's not until we've turned up today and explained
0:20:50 > 0:20:52what's going to happen,
0:20:52 > 0:20:54that's when I think the reality sets in, that he'll be going now,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57and his family are obviously still in the UK at the moment.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59OK, thank you. OK.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Can you please tell the gentleman
0:21:01 > 0:21:03he's now going to be searched by one of my colleagues,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06and, once he's been searched, the handcuffs will be removed?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Stand here, sir.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Can you tell this gentleman because he's got previous for drugs misuse,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20I'm going to authorise a strip search under Section 54 of PACE?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24For Adam, Mielczarek's arrest
0:21:24 > 0:21:27marks the end of a difficult period where he and fellow officers
0:21:27 > 0:21:29have narrowly missed out
0:21:29 > 0:21:32on catching some of the other fugitives they're after.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33When we made that arrest,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36it was almost like a weight's lifted off your shoulders, really,
0:21:36 > 0:21:39and you're going from one address to the next to the next,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41and often it's demoralising,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44sometimes, when you're just not getting anywhere,
0:21:44 > 0:21:45so to actually find someone in,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48especially for such a serious offence,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50I think that was the most serious one we had that week,
0:21:50 > 0:21:52for a murder offence,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55it was certainly very rewarding to get them
0:21:55 > 0:21:58and put them in custody to be dealt with properly.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10By May 2013, Andrew Moran had been on the run for eight years.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13In November the previous year,
0:22:13 > 0:22:15he'd escaped capture by Spanish police
0:22:15 > 0:22:18by driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21In the villa he abandoned,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24he left behind more evidence of his criminal lifestyle.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28We found a gun in the kitchen.
0:22:28 > 0:22:33We also found a machete behind his pillow, so...
0:22:33 > 0:22:37And the way he did things, you know, OK, this is a crazy man,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40he doesn't care about anything, just about himself,
0:22:40 > 0:22:42because you don't do those kinds of things.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45We checked the computers,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49so we realised he was having a really nice life here in Spain.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52From the photographs that we recovered
0:22:52 > 0:22:54from his laptop and his iPad,
0:22:54 > 0:22:55it did show him travelling
0:22:55 > 0:22:59extensively, access to high-powered vehicles,
0:22:59 > 0:23:03lavish lifestyle, and clearly he was living a very opulent life.
0:23:04 > 0:23:09The photos on his laptop also revealed that Moran
0:23:09 > 0:23:12was adept at changing his appearance.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17Some pictures he has very long hair, very blond hair,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21in others, just very short hair.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Sometimes he was wearing glasses or...
0:23:25 > 0:23:29So it was not that easy
0:23:29 > 0:23:32to realise who he was.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35But police and the National Crime Agency
0:23:35 > 0:23:40were determined this latest escape would be short-lived.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43He was now going to have to perhaps move him into an area that would
0:23:43 > 0:23:45make him even more vulnerable.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46He was no longer perhaps in
0:23:46 > 0:23:49and amongst a seat of criminals over there in Spain.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53He was now going to have to perhaps go it alone.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Olga and her team spent months
0:23:56 > 0:23:59searching amongst the expat community.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01It's like a personal thing.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04He tried to kill me.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07He didn't care about the Spanish police over there,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10and let's go find him again.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16But with thousands of Brits thronging this coastline,
0:24:16 > 0:24:20tracking down Moran for a second time wasn't going to be easy.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Spanish police suspected he'd headed for Benidorm.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29We moved some people from my team over there,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32just trying to check all the bars in Benidorm
0:24:32 > 0:24:36It was May, so it was nice weather here.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39All the bars over there, British bars and things like that,
0:24:39 > 0:24:41but we didn't get much information.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Then came the tip-off they needed.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49A friend of Moran's owned a villa in Calpe,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52half an hour north of Benidorm,
0:24:52 > 0:24:54and it seemed he had a new tenant.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58We just came here to take a look and he was outside,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00so from here we just took some pictures,
0:25:00 > 0:25:04and then we realised it was Moran,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07and after that is when we decided, OK, let's make the arrest in here.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Olga had tracked Moran down once again.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Not wanting to take any more chances with this dangerous and potentially
0:25:17 > 0:25:21armed criminal, she called in a crack Spanish Swat team.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26The special team normally go at night
0:25:26 > 0:25:30but I told them a little bit of how dangerous this guy was, it's like...
0:25:30 > 0:25:32And the house got two floors.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35We knew the bedrooms were upstairs,
0:25:35 > 0:25:40so I told them if you get there at night, you have to go upstairs.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44I'm sure this guy got guns again.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48I found a machete, so probably he will get a new one.
0:25:48 > 0:25:53And then we decided, OK, I can see him, he's by the swimming pool,
0:25:53 > 0:25:57he is wearing shorts, so I'm sure he has nothing on him.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00So let's go to do it now.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07As Moran relaxed by the pool with his girlfriend,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09the team caught him by surprise.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16As soon as he realised we were police officers, he tried to escape,
0:26:16 > 0:26:19so he tried to jump to the other house,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23but the police officer got them and they took him back to the house,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26and he was arrested close to the swimming pool.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30We found a lot of mobile phones in the kitchen,
0:26:30 > 0:26:36and then upstairs we found a new machete, under the pillow.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38That's the information... I mean, that's what we expected.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42And this time, the guns were not in the house.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45They were outside, but belonging to the same property.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Back in Lancashire,
0:26:50 > 0:26:54officers were relieved that the man who'd escaped justice in 2009
0:26:54 > 0:26:57was finally in custody in Spain.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00After all that hard work that we'd done
0:27:00 > 0:27:02to get through the long trial proceedings,
0:27:02 > 0:27:07to find him now two or three times when he's been wanted and escaped,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10to know that he was finally there, arrested, behind bars in Spain,
0:27:10 > 0:27:14safe, and was coming back at some stage to the UK
0:27:14 > 0:27:17was a really sort of...
0:27:17 > 0:27:20real feeling of job satisfaction, of a job well done.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24I think when he escaped the first time, he thought I was stupid,
0:27:24 > 0:27:28or the police officers, or the Spanish police officers were stupid.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30But right now I think he was not that smart...
0:27:32 > 0:27:33..because we found him again.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37So...right now, you have to see, I'm here.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40He's still in jail in Spain
0:27:40 > 0:27:42and he's going back to the UK,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45and he has to spend a long, long time over there,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47so who's the smart guy?
0:27:54 > 0:27:55Following his capture,
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Moran was tried in Spain for drug and traffic offences.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03After three years in a Spanish jail, he was returned to the UK,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and, in April 2016,
0:28:05 > 0:28:08he was sentenced to a minimum of eight years in prison.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Slawomir Mielczarek, the man who'd already served six years
0:28:15 > 0:28:17in a Polish prison for murder,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20was deported back to his homeland in March 2016.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25And in May the same year,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Metropolitan Police put Przemyslaw Ratajczyk
0:28:28 > 0:28:31on a military flight back to Poland to serve his sentence
0:28:31 > 0:28:35for producing and selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs.