0:00:02 > 0:00:04- Come on. - On the run...
0:00:04 > 0:00:06- Get back here! - ..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 > 0:00:13many hide out in the UK...
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Give me your hands.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18..but if they think they're safe, they're wrong.
0:00:18 > 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 > 0:00:26But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one-way.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals
0:00:30 > 0:00:32also trying to escape justice.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38From the sun-drenched Costas, where the villains seek a life of luxury,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40to the busy streets of the Dutch capital,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43where many continue their life of crime.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48We join the crack teams hunting them down.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50When you take the risk to come to Amsterdam, as a criminal,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53there's a high chance that we'll get you.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57When it comes to justice, borders are no barrier.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03This is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Police officer!
0:01:05 > 0:01:07..both at home, and abroad.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11If you're thinking of running - don't.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12We will find you.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15We will bring you back.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24On today's programme...
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I can see your feet, there's no need to creep about.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30..the six-month hunt for a Polish murderer
0:01:30 > 0:01:31who kicked a man to death...
0:01:33 > 0:01:34Get down, now. Tom!
0:01:34 > 0:01:37..the criminal who thought he'd found
0:01:37 > 0:01:39the perfect place to dodge the law...
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Perhaps the expectation is that the cops won't look
0:01:42 > 0:01:44in the toy cupboard, but if your feet are hanging out,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46then Dave will do the rest.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51..and Spanish police pay a surprise visit to a Merseyside gangster
0:01:51 > 0:01:56who'd gone to extreme lengths to stay on the run for 13 years.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59He was obviously very well-resourced,
0:01:59 > 0:02:01he was obviously very well-prepared,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03and he was determined to stay hidden.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13London, home to almost nine million people.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Hidden amongst them,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19fugitives wanted for crimes committed across the world.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24It's the job of a specialist team of detectives
0:02:24 > 0:02:27to find them and bring them to justice.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32This is the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34The unit is a manhunt unit,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37trying to track down people that are wanted in foreign countries
0:02:37 > 0:02:40for a wide range of serious crime.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43It's valuable work because it makes a difference
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and takes dangerous people off the streets.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Over a period of more than a year we filmed them
0:02:48 > 0:02:52as they tracked down fugitives who thought they could escape the law.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Right, can we just run through these jobs we've got for this evening?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04The first one we're going to go out on is Kamil Borkowski,
0:03:04 > 0:03:05who's wanted for a murder in Poland.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Detective Sergeant Pete Rance and DC Jamie Derby
0:03:10 > 0:03:13are planning an operation in south-west London.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18The target is a man they've arrested before,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20but who was subsequently released.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25He's since been convicted in his absence of murder by a Polish court.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29The last time we were there, he was hiding under some stairs or...
0:03:29 > 0:03:32- He was hiding in a cupboard. - So when we get there, me and you
0:03:32 > 0:03:36make the approach to the door with Christophe,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38and if you guys can cover the back,
0:03:38 > 0:03:40make sure there's nothing going on round the back, all right?
0:03:40 > 0:03:45Everyone happy with their roles when we get to the first address?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Yes.- Everyone good to go?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Yes.- Smashing.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Pete and Jamie are part of a team of more than 20 detectives
0:03:52 > 0:03:54who make up the Extradition Unit.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57It's a job that keeps them busy.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Last year, we had over 1,200 requests for extradition.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And this month alone we're already up to 40...
0:04:08 > 0:04:12..and we're what? Where are we now? 12th, the 12th day of the month.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14So it's a conveyor belt of work,
0:04:14 > 0:04:18it moves quite quickly and it's a full spectrum of...
0:04:19 > 0:04:22..criminal offences that these people are wanted for,
0:04:22 > 0:04:24from very minor misdemeanours,
0:04:24 > 0:04:26right the way up to murder and terrorism offences,
0:04:26 > 0:04:31so there's a real cross-section of offences there.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36They work with the National Crime Agency
0:04:36 > 0:04:39to gather intelligence for each case.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42They've been tracking Kamil Borkowski for years.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45We've had the job a little while.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48He was initially accused of the murder,
0:04:48 > 0:04:50he's now been convicted of the murder,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52he's got three years to serve,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55so we've refreshed our intelligence checks on it, and...
0:04:56 > 0:04:59..we're pretty confident that he's going to be at the address
0:04:59 > 0:05:02where he's registered as living at the moment.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06The identified address we're looking at is a ground floor flat.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09We'll deploy shortly around the rear, just to see if there's
0:05:09 > 0:05:12any chance of having a look inside the property from outside.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Somebody that's wanted for murder in a foreign jurisdiction...
0:05:18 > 0:05:20..it goes without saying that that person presents a risk to,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23to us in the United Kingdom.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33They quickly check the area, and confirm they have the right flat.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Hearing him.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- Hello.- Hello. - We're from the police.- Yeah.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Is it OK to come in? Sorry? Is it OK to come in?- Yes, of course.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- OK, thank you.- What's happened?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Nothing, nothing to worry about.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05With one of the team covering escape routes,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08the others search the property, knowing that their man,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11who is already convicted for murder at home,
0:06:11 > 0:06:13has good reason to hide.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20The police are told that Borkowski has moved out
0:06:20 > 0:06:23and men's clothes found in the bedroom belong to a friend.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Pete is not altogether convinced.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31She could be telling the truth, it may be that she's got rid of him.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34It could be that we're just a little bit too early in...
0:06:35 > 0:06:38..visiting the address, so we'll have to have a rethink.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47The wanted murderer seems to have evaded capture for now,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50but these detectives are determined they will get their man,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52however long it takes.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Hello?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01The hunt never stops. Even crossing international borders
0:07:01 > 0:07:04to ensure bad guys are brought to book.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12When Spanish police raided this fortified villa near Malaga,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15they were searching for a Merseyside drug baron
0:07:15 > 0:07:17who'd been on the run for more than a decade...
0:07:20 > 0:07:22..this man, Mark Lilley.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26A dangerous gangster with a reputation for violence.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32He was one of Britain's most wanted,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and for 13 years no-one could find him.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39He managed to stay one step ahead of us and he was obviously
0:07:39 > 0:07:42very well-resourced, he was obviously very well-prepared,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44and he was determined to stay hidden.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50The investigation into Lilley began all the way back in 1998,
0:07:50 > 0:07:55when the north-west Regional Crime Squad launched a covert operation
0:07:55 > 0:07:58to take down Merseyside's biggest drug dealers.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05One of the officers on that job still works in surveillance,
0:08:05 > 0:08:07so we can't reveal his identity.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Mark Lilley was well-known within the St Helens area
0:08:12 > 0:08:14to be a bit of a bully.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19His core business was making a lot of money from drugs importation
0:08:19 > 0:08:23and distribution. He was a major player within quite a large group
0:08:23 > 0:08:26of drug dealers, him being at the top,
0:08:26 > 0:08:30and he did instruct and intimidate people to do his bidding.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37The police operation filmed Lilley's every move and installed secret
0:08:37 > 0:08:41microphones to gather the evidence they needed to bring him in.
0:08:48 > 0:08:55We decided that we would have audio placed within his flat,
0:08:55 > 0:08:59and cameras outside, which proved a great asset for us
0:08:59 > 0:09:04in relation to intelligence that we were gathering from that flat.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09There was a lot of drug users and drug dealers that were arriving
0:09:09 > 0:09:11at that flat on a daily basis.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20The impression I got of him, he was a big guy.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Could be quite intimidating, a bit of a show-off,
0:09:23 > 0:09:28and liked to brag quite a bit about what he was doing.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33The surveillance operation had Lilley banged to rights.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Police raided his houses, uncovering his cache of drugs and firearms
0:09:37 > 0:09:40and the gangster was arrested.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44He was in bed at the time.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Got out of bed, went down on his knees,
0:09:47 > 0:09:48put his hands behind his head.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52He was quite cool, calm and collected...
0:09:52 > 0:09:56and in a joking mood, cracking jokes with the searching officers.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Lilley clearly believed he would have the last laugh.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05He was out on bail when he went to trial
0:10:05 > 0:10:08and, before the verdict was reached, he did a runner.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Lilley attended the majority of his trial and then absconded
0:10:12 > 0:10:13as it was coming to an end.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16The trial continued in his absence and he was given a conviction,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19so he knew that when he was on the run, if he was arrested,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22he would be coming back to serve a 23-year sentence.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26But first, they would have to find him.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29He disappeared from the face of the Earth,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33so we didn't have any intelligence at that time as to where he may be.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36He was now one of Britain's most wanted,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38sparking an international manhunt
0:10:38 > 0:10:41that would last for more than 13 years.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52There are extradition teams working across the UK.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56One of the busiest is here in West Yorkshire.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Hello, police.
0:10:58 > 0:11:03In the past six years they've arrested more than 400 foreign criminals.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Contact.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10And this is the team on duty tonight -
0:11:10 > 0:11:12PC Dave Lockwood...
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I've just confirmed it is the wanted person.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17..and his colleague PC Tom Allen.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19- Move on to the next one?- Yep.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Tonight they've got a new case that's just come in.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Oh, it's fresh, very fresh.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29It's a European Arrest Warrant issued for this man.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34We've just had a new one drop into our mailbox we've received
0:11:34 > 0:11:35from the National Crime Agency.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40And I think we've got, as of two months ago, a solid address for him.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44I think it will be a good one for us to go for tonight.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Ladislav Ziga has a prison sentence waiting for him
0:11:46 > 0:11:49in the Czech Republic for assault, robbery and theft.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55All of them are offences that present serious harm to communities,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58so if this person was at large in West Yorkshire, yeah,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00no doubt they would commit similar offences
0:12:00 > 0:12:02and present themselves as quite a risk.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Tom and Dave suit up.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07They're in no mood for trouble from this criminal.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Prepared for anything,
0:12:14 > 0:12:18they head off to check out a recent address for the wanted man.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30It's late, and most of the homes on this street are in darkness,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32but in the house they're targeting,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35it looks like someone could be awake.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- This here, on the end corner. - Here with the lights on.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Yeah.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51They approach the house, checking for signs of movement upstairs.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02And sure enough, when Tom knocks on the front door,
0:13:02 > 0:13:04a figure comes to the window.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- Contact, first floor, female. - That's them.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13But whoever lives here is in no hurry to come to the door.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Looks like that might be a bathroom,
0:13:15 > 0:13:17so I don't know if she's been in the shower or something.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Yeah, yeah. - Might just need a moment.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Who are you, pal?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26MUFFLED REPLY
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Are you going to answer the door?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Looking good, Tom.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Hello there, how you doing?
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Sorry to get you up. What's your name, pal, please? Surname?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Who else is in the house?
0:13:42 > 0:13:46The man at the door looks similar to the person they're chasing.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Date of birth? Do you have an identity card?
0:13:49 > 0:13:53But the man they're looking for has a scorpion tattooed on his neck.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- No tattoo on the neck, is there? - No.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58A woman comes down the stairs.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01She says there's no-one else but children in the house.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- How many others upstairs? - Children. Children...
0:14:04 > 0:14:06- No adults?- No.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08OK.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12OK, I'm going to look upstairs, do you want to come with me?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Yeah.- OK. Come on, then, let's go upstairs.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Dave's not taking her at her word.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Why are you here?
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Just one room at a time.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27He goes through the rooms methodically.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31At first, the search turns up nothing.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32And then this room...
0:14:35 > 0:14:38But these officers know that fugitives will hide
0:14:38 > 0:14:40in the strangest places.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Get down, now! Tom! Come in.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Stay there, stay there, now.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55A dangerous and violent drugs baron, Mark Lilley,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58was facing 23 years behind bars
0:14:58 > 0:15:01after a covert police operation caught him red-handed.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09But during his trial for serious drugs and firearms offences,
0:15:09 > 0:15:10he did a runner.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14He vanished without trace
0:15:14 > 0:15:17and was now one of Britain's most wanted criminals.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20It's not unusual, if someone's got the resources,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23for them to go straight to ground. They will sometimes stay inside
0:15:23 > 0:15:25for months on end, they won't venture out,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28they'll have other people that are bringing them supplies,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30keeping them sort of in the loop with what's going on,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33how the hunt for that person's progressing.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Lilley stayed hidden for years,
0:15:36 > 0:15:38but sightings of him trickled in
0:15:38 > 0:15:41and the trail seemed to lead to one country in particular.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45We had indications that Lilley was in Spain.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48We had him linked to several other countries, as well,
0:15:48 > 0:15:49but Spain was always the main one
0:15:49 > 0:15:52and that was where we were focused on, really.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55It was then just a case of actually narrowing down exactly where he was.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58But for a period of time he managed to stay one step of ahead of us
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and he was probably moving quite regularly, at that point,
0:16:01 > 0:16:02to evade detection.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06In the years since Lilley fled, cooperation between British
0:16:06 > 0:16:09and Spanish law enforcement had increased considerably.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13By the time Inspector Olga Lizana took over
0:16:13 > 0:16:16as head of the Spanish National Police's Fugitives Unit,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Lilley had already been on the run for more than a decade.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Well, at the beginning I thought we were not going to find this guy,
0:16:24 > 0:16:28because he was in Spain for, at that time, for around ten years.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31So it's like there's...
0:16:31 > 0:16:35a fugitive can change a lot in ten years,
0:16:35 > 0:16:38so it's like maybe we're looking for a different guy.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43I even felt, well, maybe he's just left the country,
0:16:43 > 0:16:45because there was nothing at all.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50The first lead came when Olga found out
0:16:50 > 0:16:54that the fugitive's ex-wife and daughter could be living in
0:16:54 > 0:16:57a small village called Mijas in the hills of southern Spain.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02His former wife was living in Mijas, with his daughter,
0:17:02 > 0:17:04so I moved over there.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08I checked the house, I checked with the schools over there,
0:17:08 > 0:17:12but they told us she was back in the UK,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15so that's all I could do the first time.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19But then a breakthrough.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24Olga discovered five houses in the area Lilley had bought and paid for,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26even though they weren't in his name.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30She put them all under surveillance.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36The neighbours didn't know who he was or his real name.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40They was like, he was always driving luxury cars.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45He'd just leave the house at night and come early in the morning
0:17:45 > 0:17:49or late at night, but he doesn't have much relation
0:17:49 > 0:17:53with the neighbours, so I knew it was him.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58The net was closing.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Now Olga had to pinpoint which of the houses he was in
0:18:01 > 0:18:03before she could make her move.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09And he got another house up in the hill and I know he was there
0:18:09 > 0:18:12because I was on the other side of the hill,
0:18:12 > 0:18:15just with the binoculars.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Olga tracked him to this villa,
0:18:18 > 0:18:23high in the hills above Malaga and surrounded by a ten-foot-high wall.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26It was time to strike.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31You always think, OK, we're going to have just one opportunity
0:18:31 > 0:18:34to get him, so you want the right moment for that.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37And maybe it's the last opportunity for us.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39If he moves to another country,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42then the British have to start again with the whole investigation.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44So, OK, this is it.
0:18:46 > 0:18:52But, as more than 40 armed officers prepared for an early-morning raid,
0:18:52 > 0:18:54not everything would go according to plan.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08It's coming up to five in the morning
0:19:08 > 0:19:10on the streets of south London.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Detective Sergeant Pete Rance and his team from the Extradition Unit
0:19:16 > 0:19:19are after an extremely violent criminal.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22We're looking for a guy called Kamil Borkowski,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25who is wanted in Poland for a murder.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28A murder committed in 2010, where he's
0:19:28 > 0:19:31convicted of kicking a man to death.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37But this murderer has proved difficult to track down,
0:19:37 > 0:19:40and this isn't the first time they've tried to find him.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Six months previously,
0:19:44 > 0:19:48the team thought they'd located him at a block of flats in Kingston.
0:19:55 > 0:19:56- Hello.- Hello.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- We're the police.- Yes? - Is it OK to come in?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Sorry?- Is it OK to come in? - Yes, of course.- OK, thank you.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- What's happened?- Nothing. Nothing to worry about.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09The woman who answered the door was his partner,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11but insisted she'd kicked him out.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14He's not in there. We searched the flat.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Completely. He's not in there.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18She could be telling the truth. It may be that she's got rid of him,
0:20:18 > 0:20:21but we're dubious.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Although several months have passed,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30the extradition team haven't given up.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33They're heading back to the same address they searched the first time.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38As we do with these type of cases, we never leave them alone.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40They're refreshed, we rework on them.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44And at the moment, the information we're getting back is that
0:20:44 > 0:20:47there's a very good chance that he's still at this address.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Pete and the team arrive at the estate in convoy.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- So we're going to put Dave there? - INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Good morning, it's the police, could you open the door, please?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09The detectives gain entry to the block of flats
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and cover all the exits.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19Their hunt for the Polish murderer has led them back to this door.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27But no-one's answering.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34They listen intently.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37There's nothing but silence.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43And unless Peter's certain someone's inside, he can't force entry.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46All of the intelligence that we've got,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49our information is that he is probably staying at this address.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51He's linked, still, with this female.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55We have no power to enter unless we can actually,
0:21:55 > 0:21:57we've got reasonable belief that he's in there,
0:21:57 > 0:21:59under the extradition act powers.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Given the noise that we've created when we've been here,
0:22:05 > 0:22:08the young child's probably not there cos you'd have anticipated
0:22:08 > 0:22:10or expected to have heard some sort of noise.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16I'm starting to think, cos there's a broken window round the back,
0:22:16 > 0:22:20and the blind has clearly been disturbed in some way,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24that there's a possibility that the fella we're looking at
0:22:24 > 0:22:25could have gone in there,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27knowing that the female and the child aren't there.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29So we're going to give it a bit longer
0:22:29 > 0:22:31and see if we can hear any sort of noise inside.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35It's difficult. Difficult situation.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40It's been almost an hour since they arrived,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43and still there's no sign of life in the flat.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Hello?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51For Pete, it's a disappointing setback.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56My gut feeling is there's not anyone in there
0:22:56 > 0:22:58cos you'd have heard something.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00We could wait here to see if...
0:23:02 > 0:23:05..if someone comes out, but if they've gone on holiday
0:23:05 > 0:23:07you could be here for weeks.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10That's not really an option.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14We've exhausted what we can do here today.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25They are reluctant to leave.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28The man they are after killed his victim
0:23:28 > 0:23:30by repeatedly kicking him in the head.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37But will the detectives' persistence finally pay off
0:23:37 > 0:23:41when they return a few days later to the same flat for a third time?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- Pete?- Yeah?- There's two people in here.- Yeah, yeah.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Open the door, please, it's the police.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59It's late at night on a quiet street in Leeds.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Police officers Dave Lockwood and Tom Allen have come to this house
0:24:04 > 0:24:06to find a criminal on the run.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11The man they're after is a robber and a thief
0:24:11 > 0:24:13and he's wanted in the Czech Republic.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Contact, first floor, female.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19But the people in the house say he isn't here.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Hello, there. How are you doing?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25- Children.- No adults?- No.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Dave isn't convinced.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32He's not leaving here without first checking the rest of the house.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Come on, let's go upstairs.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38One room at a time.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44At first it seems the residents are all telling the truth.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Upstairs, all is quiet.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Oops, that's dangerous, isn't it?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00But then, Dave spots something in a cupboard.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Get down, now! Do not mess about.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04In fact, stay there.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Tom, come in, top floor!
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Stay there. Stay there now.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12With two people desperate not to be found,
0:25:12 > 0:25:14it's an unpredictable situation.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Put your hands down. Look, just cuff him straightaway.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18See who he is.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Put your hands down.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Give me your hands.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Hand. Have you got your cuffs?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Other hand now.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Stay there.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Just let go of him.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Right. Slowly climb down.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Stop. Stop it. - No, no, stop shouting.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41No, no, stop shouting.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45We're dealing with something here.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Right, are you ready? Come on, drop down. Right, stay there.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Stay there.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Wait, wait.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00They've found not one but two people hiding amongst the children's toys.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05The unknown man and woman are cuffed and brought out.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07In there, please.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Hang on. Wait, wait, wait. Let's go downstairs.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Just, will you relax? Chill out. Relax your arms.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Dave and Tom quickly get the situation under control.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21We're going to go downstairs and sort things out.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23I don't want to get into a tussle with you, OK?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25I don't want to be fighting with you. So you chill out,
0:26:25 > 0:26:27we'll go downstairs and you can sit down.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- OK.- You understand?- OK.- Right.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33All hiding places seem a good hiding place until you're found.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Clearly, he thought it was a good idea
0:26:35 > 0:26:38to try and conceal himself in the toy cupboard,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40but we caught him.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44I think the shoes showed out and Dave did the rest.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Right, take a seat, chill out.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Now, they want to know who these two are,
0:26:52 > 0:26:56and what exactly they were doing upstairs in a cupboard.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Sit there, please.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Why were you two hiding in the cupboard?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- Start off there. - Because we were scared.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09What were you scared of?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Well, it's not normal for us to come to houses and find people
0:27:15 > 0:27:18hiding in cupboards, is it? I'll have a look. Lift your head up.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22OK. Thank you. Tattoo on the neck from the picture.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Birthday?
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Another look at the arrest warrant confirms what the officers suspect.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31The man with the scorpion tattoo on his neck
0:27:31 > 0:27:33is the fugitive they're hunting.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Is that you?- Yeah.- Yeah?
0:27:35 > 0:27:40Ladislav, the Czech authorities, the Czech police,
0:27:40 > 0:27:45OK, have issued an arrest warrant for us to detain you.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47As Tom arrests the man,
0:27:47 > 0:27:51the woman caught hiding with him in the cupboard is released,
0:27:51 > 0:27:52but she's having none of it.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57You are?
0:27:57 > 0:27:58I'll ring NCA.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01We'll double-check.
0:28:01 > 0:28:06It's not often they get people asking to be arrested and extradited,
0:28:06 > 0:28:10so Dave calls the National Crime Agency to check out the woman's story.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I just want to know if this lass is wanted, to take her in, as well?
0:28:13 > 0:28:16'Do you want me to give you a call-back?'
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Yeah, I'm going to remain at the scene, at the address here.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23She's packed her bag, ready to go, she's that sure she's wanted, so...
0:28:23 > 0:28:25What offence are you wanted for?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Don't know. You don't know?
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- They're looking for you? Is that what you've heard from Czech?- Yeah.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- They're looking for you over there? - Yeah.- She doesn't know what
0:28:33 > 0:28:36she's wanted for, but she's heard they're looking for her over there.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38The woman insists she's wanted by police,
0:28:38 > 0:28:42even though she doesn't know what she's wanted for.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Tom explains that's not how this works.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47If you just stay in here for five minutes, we're just waiting
0:28:47 > 0:28:49to check. We're just finding out whether you are wanted.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Until...until the NCA tell us you are, we can't arrest you.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Then, the call comes through.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05- Hello?- 'Hi, is that Dave?'
0:29:05 > 0:29:08- It is, yeah.- Hi, it's Michelle from Interpol Manchester.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11- Hi, are you OK?- 'Hello, yeah, I've ran that name through,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15'first name and her surname, and there's no hit on there.'
0:29:15 > 0:29:17- All right. Take care, thanks, see you. Bye.- Bye.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21I'm going to have to disappoint you.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23You're not wanted.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Despite her protests, she won't be taken to the police station tonight,
0:29:27 > 0:29:32leaving Dave to wonder why she wanted to be arrested in the first place.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35I've never had anybody as insistent as that before, no.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37I mean, she got dressed, she got ready.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39She were ready to go, weren't she? She were really insistent.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45Dave and Tom take Ladislav back to the police station,
0:29:45 > 0:29:49where he's processed before being sent to his extradition hearing.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55As for the woman hiding in the cupboard with him,
0:29:55 > 0:29:59further investigation revealed she HAD been in trouble
0:29:59 > 0:30:01in the Czech Republic.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07While living in the UK,
0:30:07 > 0:30:10she'd been found guilty of theft in a court back home.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14But because the sentence was suspended,
0:30:14 > 0:30:16there was no arrest warrant.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Her partner will have to go back to the Czech Republic
0:30:21 > 0:30:23to face justice by himself.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit
0:30:36 > 0:30:39are back on the streets of London hunting for a killer.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46Kamil Borkowski is a murderer on the run from Poland,
0:30:46 > 0:30:50where he was convicted for kicking a man to death.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54The detectives suspect he's hiding somewhere in these blocks of flats.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57Hello?
0:30:59 > 0:31:03When DS Pete Rance and his team came here two days ago,
0:31:03 > 0:31:05there was no answer.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09My gut feeling is there's not anyone in there, cos you'd have heard.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13We've exhausted what we can do here today.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20But they haven't given up.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21They've kept an eye on the flat
0:31:21 > 0:31:25and now they've come back, convinced there's someone inside.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31We came back yesterday afternoon and were able to see the female
0:31:31 > 0:31:34inside the address, and the positioning of the blinds
0:31:34 > 0:31:38had changed so we knew that people had been inside,
0:31:38 > 0:31:39as well as seeing her there.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Decided to come back and give it another try this morning.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57This time, they won't take no for an answer.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01Morning, it's the police, can you open the door, please?
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Morning. I can see your feet.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10It's the police, can you open the door, please?
0:32:12 > 0:32:15I can see your feet, so you don't need to creep about.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20I can see you again, tiptoeing back through to the living room.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Do you want to open the door?
0:32:22 > 0:32:25They've spotted the partner of the man they're after
0:32:25 > 0:32:27sneaking around inside.
0:32:27 > 0:32:31But now, she has nowhere left to hide.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Open the door, please.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37She tiptoed into the kitchen.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39If she refuses to open the door,
0:32:39 > 0:32:43the detectives now have the power to force entry into the property.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Open the door, please, it's the police.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00- Pete? Pete?- Yeah.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02- There's two people in there. - Yeah, yeah.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05Open the door, mate. Kamil, come and open the door.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Pete.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13- Just stop screaming, stop- BLEEP.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Police. Is Kamil here?
0:33:16 > 0:33:17Where is he?
0:33:19 > 0:33:22- All right, come out. Put your hands up.- Hands up.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25No, no, no. Stop.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30We had a gut feeling that he was still linked to this address
0:33:30 > 0:33:33and still with her. And it's proven to be...
0:33:34 > 0:33:36That gut feeling has proven to be...
0:33:36 > 0:33:38instinct's proven to be right.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45This way, this way.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53It's taken more than six months, but the team have finally got their man.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55OK, mind your head.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Just sit. Stay this side, stay this side.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02Going to put your seatbelt on, all right?
0:34:02 > 0:34:03All right.
0:34:05 > 0:34:06Well done, mate.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10We've got to get lucky, and we got lucky this morning again,
0:34:10 > 0:34:13although, we've... I suppose, if we were to sort of...
0:34:15 > 0:34:18..try and put a positive on it, we'd say we've made our own luck
0:34:18 > 0:34:19here today, so, very pleased.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Another dangerous man in custody.
0:34:23 > 0:34:28Kamil Borkowski has dodged the law and evaded capture for six years,
0:34:28 > 0:34:33but now, the extradition team's persistence has finally paid off.
0:34:33 > 0:34:39Persistence is a key quality in the work that we work with here.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42You know, we never give up on these warrants.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45If the warrants are outstanding, we do our very best to ensure,
0:34:45 > 0:34:47if there is some intelligence,
0:34:47 > 0:34:49that intelligence is followed up and acted on.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54So a lot of the cases that we deal with may lay dormant for a while,
0:34:54 > 0:34:55but they never actually go away.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58At some stage, they're going to get re-looked at,
0:34:58 > 0:35:01and if the people are here, we're confident that we'll find them.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06And for the team, there's the satisfaction of knowing
0:35:06 > 0:35:09that a dangerous man is now on his way out of the country.
0:35:09 > 0:35:14In a case like Borkowski, where he's convicted of killing
0:35:14 > 0:35:18somebody else, you know, there has to be a consideration that,
0:35:18 > 0:35:21if he's done that in a foreign jurisdiction,
0:35:21 > 0:35:23what's to stop him coming over here and getting drunk
0:35:23 > 0:35:25and doing it again?
0:35:25 > 0:35:28One of the key areas and aspects of our work
0:35:28 > 0:35:34is that we feel we assist London because a dangerous criminal
0:35:34 > 0:35:37in a foreign jurisdiction could be a dangerous criminal here.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40If we can extradite them, take them into custody,
0:35:40 > 0:35:42get them off the streets, if that's what's needed,
0:35:42 > 0:35:46then we're taking away some of the risk that those people
0:35:46 > 0:35:49might present to people that live and work in London.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01Caught red-handed with guns and drugs,
0:36:01 > 0:36:07dangerous gangster Mark Lilley was sentenced to 23 years behind bars.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11But he'd already gone on the run,
0:36:11 > 0:36:15and had managed to outwit the law for 13 years.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18He was living a life, he was living it under a different name,
0:36:18 > 0:36:20different identity. For a period of time,
0:36:20 > 0:36:22he managed to stay one step ahead of us, and he was probably
0:36:22 > 0:36:26moving quite regularly at that point to evade detection.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28But the search for Lilley never stopped,
0:36:28 > 0:36:31and all the clues pointed to Spain.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37By the time Inspector Olga Lizana took over
0:36:37 > 0:36:40as head of the Spanish National Police Fugitives Unit,
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Lilley had been in hiding for more than ten years.
0:36:44 > 0:36:50You could not imagine how much time it took me to check
0:36:50 > 0:36:54all the information, because it was not a new case, it was an old case,
0:36:54 > 0:36:57so you have to check everything again.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02Olga's diligence paid off when she finally tracked him down
0:37:02 > 0:37:07to this hilltop villa. It was surrounded by ten-foot-high walls,
0:37:07 > 0:37:10and she had no idea what lay behind them.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14We didn't know how many people were in the house.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18We were not sure if they'd got guns or not,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21so you have to cover all those things
0:37:21 > 0:37:23and be prepared for whatever happens.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27Olga launched a strike on the compound.
0:37:28 > 0:37:33Mobilising a team of more than 40 armed officers with air support,
0:37:33 > 0:37:37the villa was surrounded as a tactical unit swarmed over the gate.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Armed police stormed the villa
0:37:45 > 0:37:48and smashed in the front door with a battering ram.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00Once inside, officers searched the house for the man who now topped
0:38:00 > 0:38:03the list of Britain's most wanted.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08But there was no sign of him.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14The guys there were telling me that Lilley was not in the house.
0:38:14 > 0:38:19They had checked the whole house, and they didn't find the guy.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24Somehow, the fugitive appeared to have evaded capture once again.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28But Olga wasn't giving up.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32I was sure he was there.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35I just said, "Well, nobody's moving from here till we find him!"
0:38:35 > 0:38:38It was a critical decision.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40They swept the house a second time.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47A closer look inside a row of wardrobes revealed a slight oddity
0:38:47 > 0:38:49that was to prove crucial.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53The wooden panel at the back of one of them
0:38:53 > 0:38:55was slightly different to the rest.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59One of the police officers that was checking that area realised that
0:38:59 > 0:39:02one of the wardrobes was not similar to the other.
0:39:02 > 0:39:07So they started taking all the things out of there
0:39:07 > 0:39:10and then they found the door.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13Behind the wooden panel was a solid steel door.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18They'd found the secret entrance to a fortified panic room.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Hidden inside was the gangster.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27We knew he was inside the panic room,
0:39:27 > 0:39:32so I told him, if he didn't open the door,
0:39:32 > 0:39:37I'm going through the whole wall to get you.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39So he decided to open.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Olga's threat to smash down the wall to get him
0:39:45 > 0:39:48convinced Lilley the game was up.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52The door opened, and she could finally size up the man
0:39:52 > 0:39:54she'd been hunting for so long.
0:39:54 > 0:40:00He was so big that we couldn't use just one handcuffs.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03We had to use two because of the size of his arm.
0:40:04 > 0:40:09News that Lilley was finally back in handcuffs delighted officers
0:40:09 > 0:40:13in the UK, where a 23-year prison sentence awaited him.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16We think he'd been alerted y the dogs in the garden,
0:40:16 > 0:40:18when the police officers first started going over the wall.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22We think they'd alerted Lilley, so he'd then at that point run inside.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24He didn't have many clothes on,
0:40:24 > 0:40:26so he'd obviously been caught on the hop, as it were.
0:40:26 > 0:40:27He'd just rushed in there,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30and then he'd watched everything unfold from inside.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34Throughout the raid, Lilley had been hidden behind
0:40:34 > 0:40:38the heavy steel door, watching the police's every move
0:40:38 > 0:40:40on secret surveillance cameras.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44He could control the whole house with the cameras.
0:40:44 > 0:40:49So he thought that we were not going to find the panic room,
0:40:49 > 0:40:51so he was just there waiting for us to leave.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57His secret hideout had been planned well in advance,
0:40:57 > 0:40:58and cleverly constructive.
0:41:00 > 0:41:02The panic room where Lilley was located,
0:41:02 > 0:41:04it's like something out of a film, isn't it?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07There was CCTV that covered the grounds, covered the house,
0:41:07 > 0:41:10so he could watch the Spanish national police come in over the wall,
0:41:10 > 0:41:13and he could see whereabouts in the house they were.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15He had the forethought and the planning to think,
0:41:15 > 0:41:17"I might need a panic room one day."
0:41:17 > 0:41:19And he'd actually taken time to install it,
0:41:19 > 0:41:22and it was very well hidden within the house.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25You know, it wasn't an amateur job, it was quite well concealed.
0:41:25 > 0:41:30So it shows how much he feared being caught.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33And this is probably one of the reasons why it took us so long
0:41:33 > 0:41:35to find him, it did take 13 years,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38because he was obviously very well-resourced,
0:41:38 > 0:41:39he was obviously very well-prepared,
0:41:39 > 0:41:41and he was determined to stay hidden.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46And the man they arrested looked nothing like the man who had fled
0:41:46 > 0:41:49British justice all those years before.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53He'd changed his appearance massively.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57He'd bulked up an incredible amount,
0:41:57 > 0:41:59got lots of different tattoos.
0:41:59 > 0:42:00He'd changed facially.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04Obviously he'd been out in Spain for along time, so he was very tanned.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08So if you put his picture next to one from 13 years previous,
0:42:08 > 0:42:12you perhaps wouldn't necessarily know they were the same individual.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15But Olga knew she'd got her man.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19She hopes Lilley's arrest will act as a warning to any other
0:42:19 > 0:42:22British criminals thinking of going on the run.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26This is not a safe place for British fugitives any more.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30I think that's the message -
0:42:30 > 0:42:32don't come to Spain.
0:42:35 > 0:42:41In August 2013, Mark Lilley was flown back to the UK.
0:42:41 > 0:42:45After a failed appeal, he finally started his 23-year sentence.
0:42:47 > 0:42:52Kamil Borkowski was extradited back to Poland in August 2016
0:42:52 > 0:42:55to serve out his sentence for murder.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59- Get down, now! Tom!- Coming.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03And Ladislav Ziga, who'd concealed himself in a cupboard,
0:43:03 > 0:43:06was sent back to the Czech Republic in June of the same year
0:43:06 > 0:43:09without his hide-and-seek partner.