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-Come on.

-On the run...

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-Get back here!

-..and over here.

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Hands out now, hands out.

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When foreign criminals flee their home countries,

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many hide out in the UK...

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Give me your hands.

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..but if they think they're safe, they're wrong.

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They know they're wanted.

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A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.

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But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one-way.

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Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals

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also trying to escape justice.

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From the sun-drenched Costas, where the villains seek a life of luxury,

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to the busy streets of the Dutch capital,

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where many continue their life of crime.

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We join the crack teams hunting them down.

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When you take the risk to come to Amsterdam, as a criminal,

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there's a high chance that we'll get you.

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When it comes to justice, borders are no barrier.

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You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.

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This is how the police take down the fugitives...

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Police officer!

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..both at home, and abroad.

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If you're thinking of running - don't.

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We will find you.

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We will bring you back.

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On today's programme...

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I can see your feet, there's no need to creep about.

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..the six-month hunt for a Polish murderer

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who kicked a man to death...

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Get down, now. Tom!

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..the criminal who thought he'd found

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the perfect place to dodge the law...

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Perhaps the expectation is that the cops won't look

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in the toy cupboard, but if your feet are hanging out,

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then Dave will do the rest.

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..and Spanish police pay a surprise visit to a Merseyside gangster

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who'd gone to extreme lengths to stay on the run for 13 years.

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He was obviously very well-resourced,

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he was obviously very well-prepared,

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and he was determined to stay hidden.

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London, home to almost nine million people.

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Hidden amongst them,

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fugitives wanted for crimes committed across the world.

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It's the job of a specialist team of detectives

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to find them and bring them to justice.

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This is the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit.

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The unit is a manhunt unit,

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trying to track down people that are wanted in foreign countries

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for a wide range of serious crime.

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It's valuable work because it makes a difference

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and takes dangerous people off the streets.

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Over a period of more than a year we filmed them

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as they tracked down fugitives who thought they could escape the law.

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Right, can we just run through these jobs we've got for this evening?

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The first one we're going to go out on is Kamil Borkowski,

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who's wanted for a murder in Poland.

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Detective Sergeant Pete Rance and DC Jamie Derby

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are planning an operation in south-west London.

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The target is a man they've arrested before,

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but who was subsequently released.

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He's since been convicted in his absence of murder by a Polish court.

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The last time we were there, he was hiding under some stairs or...

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-He was hiding in a cupboard.

-So when we get there, me and you

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make the approach to the door with Christophe,

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and if you guys can cover the back,

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make sure there's nothing going on round the back, all right?

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Everyone happy with their roles when we get to the first address?

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-Yes.

-Everyone good to go?

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-Yes.

-Smashing.

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Pete and Jamie are part of a team of more than 20 detectives

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who make up the Extradition Unit.

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It's a job that keeps them busy.

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Last year, we had over 1,200 requests for extradition.

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And this month alone we're already up to 40...

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..and we're what? Where are we now? 12th, the 12th day of the month.

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So it's a conveyor belt of work,

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it moves quite quickly and it's a full spectrum of...

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..criminal offences that these people are wanted for,

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from very minor misdemeanours,

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right the way up to murder and terrorism offences,

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so there's a real cross-section of offences there.

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They work with the National Crime Agency

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to gather intelligence for each case.

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They've been tracking Kamil Borkowski for years.

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We've had the job a little while.

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He was initially accused of the murder,

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he's now been convicted of the murder,

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he's got three years to serve,

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so we've refreshed our intelligence checks on it, and...

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..we're pretty confident that he's going to be at the address

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where he's registered as living at the moment.

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The identified address we're looking at is a ground floor flat.

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We'll deploy shortly around the rear, just to see if there's

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any chance of having a look inside the property from outside.

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Somebody that's wanted for murder in a foreign jurisdiction...

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..it goes without saying that that person presents a risk to,

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to us in the United Kingdom.

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They quickly check the area, and confirm they have the right flat.

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Hearing him.

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-Hello.

-Hello.

-We're from the police.

-Yeah.

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-Is it OK to come in? Sorry? Is it OK to come in?

-Yes, of course.

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-OK, thank you.

-What's happened?

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Nothing, nothing to worry about.

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With one of the team covering escape routes,

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the others search the property, knowing that their man,

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who is already convicted for murder at home,

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has good reason to hide.

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The police are told that Borkowski has moved out

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and men's clothes found in the bedroom belong to a friend.

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Pete is not altogether convinced.

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She could be telling the truth, it may be that she's got rid of him.

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It could be that we're just a little bit too early in...

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..visiting the address, so we'll have to have a rethink.

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The wanted murderer seems to have evaded capture for now,

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but these detectives are determined they will get their man,

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however long it takes.

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Hello?

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The hunt never stops. Even crossing international borders

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to ensure bad guys are brought to book.

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When Spanish police raided this fortified villa near Malaga,

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they were searching for a Merseyside drug baron

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who'd been on the run for more than a decade...

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..this man, Mark Lilley.

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A dangerous gangster with a reputation for violence.

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He was one of Britain's most wanted,

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and for 13 years no-one could find him.

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He managed to stay one step ahead of us and he was obviously

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very well-resourced, he was obviously very well-prepared,

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and he was determined to stay hidden.

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The investigation into Lilley began all the way back in 1998,

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when the north-west Regional Crime Squad launched a covert operation

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to take down Merseyside's biggest drug dealers.

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One of the officers on that job still works in surveillance,

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so we can't reveal his identity.

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Mark Lilley was well-known within the St Helens area

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to be a bit of a bully.

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His core business was making a lot of money from drugs importation

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and distribution. He was a major player within quite a large group

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of drug dealers, him being at the top,

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and he did instruct and intimidate people to do his bidding.

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The police operation filmed Lilley's every move and installed secret

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microphones to gather the evidence they needed to bring him in.

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We decided that we would have audio placed within his flat,

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and cameras outside, which proved a great asset for us

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in relation to intelligence that we were gathering from that flat.

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There was a lot of drug users and drug dealers that were arriving

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at that flat on a daily basis.

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The impression I got of him, he was a big guy.

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Could be quite intimidating, a bit of a show-off,

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and liked to brag quite a bit about what he was doing.

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The surveillance operation had Lilley banged to rights.

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Police raided his houses, uncovering his cache of drugs and firearms

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and the gangster was arrested.

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He was in bed at the time.

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Got out of bed, went down on his knees,

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put his hands behind his head.

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He was quite cool, calm and collected...

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and in a joking mood, cracking jokes with the searching officers.

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Lilley clearly believed he would have the last laugh.

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He was out on bail when he went to trial

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and, before the verdict was reached, he did a runner.

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Lilley attended the majority of his trial and then absconded

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as it was coming to an end.

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The trial continued in his absence and he was given a conviction,

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so he knew that when he was on the run, if he was arrested,

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he would be coming back to serve a 23-year sentence.

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But first, they would have to find him.

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He disappeared from the face of the Earth,

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so we didn't have any intelligence at that time as to where he may be.

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He was now one of Britain's most wanted,

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sparking an international manhunt

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that would last for more than 13 years.

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There are extradition teams working across the UK.

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One of the busiest is here in West Yorkshire.

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Hello, police.

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In the past six years they've arrested more than 400 foreign criminals.

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Contact.

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And this is the team on duty tonight -

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PC Dave Lockwood...

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I've just confirmed it is the wanted person.

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..and his colleague PC Tom Allen.

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-Move on to the next one?

-Yep.

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Tonight they've got a new case that's just come in.

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Oh, it's fresh, very fresh.

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It's a European Arrest Warrant issued for this man.

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We've just had a new one drop into our mailbox we've received

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from the National Crime Agency.

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And I think we've got, as of two months ago, a solid address for him.

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I think it will be a good one for us to go for tonight.

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Ladislav Ziga has a prison sentence waiting for him

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in the Czech Republic for assault, robbery and theft.

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All of them are offences that present serious harm to communities,

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so if this person was at large in West Yorkshire, yeah,

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no doubt they would commit similar offences

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and present themselves as quite a risk.

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Tom and Dave suit up.

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They're in no mood for trouble from this criminal.

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Prepared for anything,

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they head off to check out a recent address for the wanted man.

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It's late, and most of the homes on this street are in darkness,

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but in the house they're targeting,

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it looks like someone could be awake.

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-This here, on the end corner.

-Here with the lights on.

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Yeah.

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They approach the house, checking for signs of movement upstairs.

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And sure enough, when Tom knocks on the front door,

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a figure comes to the window.

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-Contact, first floor, female.

-That's them.

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But whoever lives here is in no hurry to come to the door.

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Looks like that might be a bathroom,

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so I don't know if she's been in the shower or something.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-Might just need a moment.

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Who are you, pal?

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MUFFLED REPLY

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Are you going to answer the door?

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Looking good, Tom.

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Hello there, how you doing?

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Sorry to get you up. What's your name, pal, please? Surname?

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Who else is in the house?

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The man at the door looks similar to the person they're chasing.

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Date of birth? Do you have an identity card?

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But the man they're looking for has a scorpion tattooed on his neck.

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-No tattoo on the neck, is there?

-No.

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A woman comes down the stairs.

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She says there's no-one else but children in the house.

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-How many others upstairs?

-Children. Children...

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-No adults?

-No.

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OK.

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OK, I'm going to look upstairs, do you want to come with me?

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-Yeah.

-OK. Come on, then, let's go upstairs.

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Dave's not taking her at her word.

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Why are you here?

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Just one room at a time.

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He goes through the rooms methodically.

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At first, the search turns up nothing.

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And then this room...

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But these officers know that fugitives will hide

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in the strangest places.

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Get down, now! Tom! Come in.

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Stay there, stay there, now.

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A dangerous and violent drugs baron, Mark Lilley,

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was facing 23 years behind bars

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after a covert police operation caught him red-handed.

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But during his trial for serious drugs and firearms offences,

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he did a runner.

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He vanished without trace

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and was now one of Britain's most wanted criminals.

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It's not unusual, if someone's got the resources,

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for them to go straight to ground. They will sometimes stay inside

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for months on end, they won't venture out,

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they'll have other people that are bringing them supplies,

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keeping them sort of in the loop with what's going on,

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how the hunt for that person's progressing.

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Lilley stayed hidden for years,

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but sightings of him trickled in

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and the trail seemed to lead to one country in particular.

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We had indications that Lilley was in Spain.

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We had him linked to several other countries, as well,

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but Spain was always the main one

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and that was where we were focused on, really.

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It was then just a case of actually narrowing down exactly where he was.

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But for a period of time he managed to stay one step of ahead of us

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and he was probably moving quite regularly, at that point,

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to evade detection.

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In the years since Lilley fled, cooperation between British

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and Spanish law enforcement had increased considerably.

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By the time Inspector Olga Lizana took over

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as head of the Spanish National Police's Fugitives Unit,

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Lilley had already been on the run for more than a decade.

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Well, at the beginning I thought we were not going to find this guy,

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because he was in Spain for, at that time, for around ten years.

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So it's like there's...

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a fugitive can change a lot in ten years,

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so it's like maybe we're looking for a different guy.

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I even felt, well, maybe he's just left the country,

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because there was nothing at all.

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The first lead came when Olga found out

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that the fugitive's ex-wife and daughter could be living in

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a small village called Mijas in the hills of southern Spain.

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His former wife was living in Mijas, with his daughter,

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so I moved over there.

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I checked the house, I checked with the schools over there,

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but they told us she was back in the UK,

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so that's all I could do the first time.

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But then a breakthrough.

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Olga discovered five houses in the area Lilley had bought and paid for,

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even though they weren't in his name.

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She put them all under surveillance.

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The neighbours didn't know who he was or his real name.

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They was like, he was always driving luxury cars.

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He'd just leave the house at night and come early in the morning

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or late at night, but he doesn't have much relation

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with the neighbours, so I knew it was him.

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The net was closing.

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Now Olga had to pinpoint which of the houses he was in

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before she could make her move.

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And he got another house up in the hill and I know he was there

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because I was on the other side of the hill,

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just with the binoculars.

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Olga tracked him to this villa,

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high in the hills above Malaga and surrounded by a ten-foot-high wall.

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It was time to strike.

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You always think, OK, we're going to have just one opportunity

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to get him, so you want the right moment for that.

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And maybe it's the last opportunity for us.

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If he moves to another country,

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then the British have to start again with the whole investigation.

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So, OK, this is it.

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But, as more than 40 armed officers prepared for an early-morning raid,

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not everything would go according to plan.

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It's coming up to five in the morning

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on the streets of south London.

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Detective Sergeant Pete Rance and his team from the Extradition Unit

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are after an extremely violent criminal.

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We're looking for a guy called Kamil Borkowski,

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who is wanted in Poland for a murder.

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A murder committed in 2010, where he's

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convicted of kicking a man to death.

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But this murderer has proved difficult to track down,

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and this isn't the first time they've tried to find him.

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Six months previously,

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the team thought they'd located him at a block of flats in Kingston.

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-Hello.

-Hello.

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-We're the police.

-Yes?

-Is it OK to come in?

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-Sorry?

-Is it OK to come in?

-Yes, of course.

-OK, thank you.

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-What's happened?

-Nothing. Nothing to worry about.

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The woman who answered the door was his partner,

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but insisted she'd kicked him out.

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He's not in there. We searched the flat.

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Completely. He's not in there.

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She could be telling the truth. It may be that she's got rid of him,

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but we're dubious.

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Although several months have passed,

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the extradition team haven't given up.

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They're heading back to the same address they searched the first time.

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As we do with these type of cases, we never leave them alone.

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They're refreshed, we rework on them.

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And at the moment, the information we're getting back is that

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there's a very good chance that he's still at this address.

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Pete and the team arrive at the estate in convoy.

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-So we're going to put Dave there?

-INDISTINCT SPEECH

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Good morning, it's the police, could you open the door, please?

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The detectives gain entry to the block of flats

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and cover all the exits.

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Their hunt for the Polish murderer has led them back to this door.

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But no-one's answering.

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They listen intently.

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There's nothing but silence.

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And unless Peter's certain someone's inside, he can't force entry.

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All of the intelligence that we've got,

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our information is that he is probably staying at this address.

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He's linked, still, with this female.

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We have no power to enter unless we can actually,

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we've got reasonable belief that he's in there,

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under the extradition act powers.

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Given the noise that we've created when we've been here,

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the young child's probably not there cos you'd have anticipated

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or expected to have heard some sort of noise.

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I'm starting to think, cos there's a broken window round the back,

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and the blind has clearly been disturbed in some way,

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that there's a possibility that the fella we're looking at

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could have gone in there,

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knowing that the female and the child aren't there.

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So we're going to give it a bit longer

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and see if we can hear any sort of noise inside.

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It's difficult. Difficult situation.

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It's been almost an hour since they arrived,

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and still there's no sign of life in the flat.

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Hello?

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For Pete, it's a disappointing setback.

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My gut feeling is there's not anyone in there

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cos you'd have heard something.

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We could wait here to see if...

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..if someone comes out, but if they've gone on holiday

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you could be here for weeks.

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That's not really an option.

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We've exhausted what we can do here today.

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They are reluctant to leave.

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The man they are after killed his victim

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by repeatedly kicking him in the head.

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But will the detectives' persistence finally pay off

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when they return a few days later to the same flat for a third time?

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-Pete?

-Yeah?

-There's two people in here.

-Yeah, yeah.

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Open the door, please, it's the police.

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It's late at night on a quiet street in Leeds.

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Police officers Dave Lockwood and Tom Allen have come to this house

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to find a criminal on the run.

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The man they're after is a robber and a thief

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and he's wanted in the Czech Republic.

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Contact, first floor, female.

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But the people in the house say he isn't here.

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Hello, there. How are you doing?

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-Children.

-No adults?

-No.

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Dave isn't convinced.

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He's not leaving here without first checking the rest of the house.

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Come on, let's go upstairs.

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One room at a time.

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At first it seems the residents are all telling the truth.

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Upstairs, all is quiet.

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Oops, that's dangerous, isn't it?

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But then, Dave spots something in a cupboard.

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Get down, now! Do not mess about.

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In fact, stay there.

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Tom, come in, top floor!

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Stay there. Stay there now.

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With two people desperate not to be found,

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it's an unpredictable situation.

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Put your hands down. Look, just cuff him straightaway.

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See who he is.

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Put your hands down.

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Give me your hands.

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Hand. Have you got your cuffs?

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Other hand now.

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Stay there.

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Just let go of him.

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Right. Slowly climb down.

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-Stop. Stop it.

-No, no, stop shouting.

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No, no, stop shouting.

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We're dealing with something here.

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Right, are you ready? Come on, drop down. Right, stay there.

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Stay there.

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Wait, wait.

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They've found not one but two people hiding amongst the children's toys.

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The unknown man and woman are cuffed and brought out.

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In there, please.

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Hang on. Wait, wait, wait. Let's go downstairs.

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Just, will you relax? Chill out. Relax your arms.

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Dave and Tom quickly get the situation under control.

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We're going to go downstairs and sort things out.

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I don't want to get into a tussle with you, OK?

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I don't want to be fighting with you. So you chill out,

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we'll go downstairs and you can sit down.

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-OK.

-You understand?

-OK.

-Right.

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All hiding places seem a good hiding place until you're found.

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Clearly, he thought it was a good idea

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to try and conceal himself in the toy cupboard,

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but we caught him.

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I think the shoes showed out and Dave did the rest.

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Right, take a seat, chill out.

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Now, they want to know who these two are,

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and what exactly they were doing upstairs in a cupboard.

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Sit there, please.

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Why were you two hiding in the cupboard?

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-Start off there.

-Because we were scared.

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What were you scared of?

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INDISTINCT SPEECH

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Well, it's not normal for us to come to houses and find people

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hiding in cupboards, is it? I'll have a look. Lift your head up.

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OK. Thank you. Tattoo on the neck from the picture.

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Birthday?

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Another look at the arrest warrant confirms what the officers suspect.

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The man with the scorpion tattoo on his neck

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is the fugitive they're hunting.

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-Is that you?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

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Ladislav, the Czech authorities, the Czech police,

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OK, have issued an arrest warrant for us to detain you.

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As Tom arrests the man,

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the woman caught hiding with him in the cupboard is released,

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but she's having none of it.

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You are?

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I'll ring NCA.

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We'll double-check.

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It's not often they get people asking to be arrested and extradited,

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so Dave calls the National Crime Agency to check out the woman's story.

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I just want to know if this lass is wanted, to take her in, as well?

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'Do you want me to give you a call-back?'

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Yeah, I'm going to remain at the scene, at the address here.

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She's packed her bag, ready to go, she's that sure she's wanted, so...

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What offence are you wanted for?

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Don't know. You don't know?

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-They're looking for you? Is that what you've heard from Czech?

-Yeah.

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-They're looking for you over there?

-Yeah.

-She doesn't know what

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she's wanted for, but she's heard they're looking for her over there.

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The woman insists she's wanted by police,

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even though she doesn't know what she's wanted for.

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Tom explains that's not how this works.

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If you just stay in here for five minutes, we're just waiting

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to check. We're just finding out whether you are wanted.

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Until...until the NCA tell us you are, we can't arrest you.

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Then, the call comes through.

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-Hello?

-'Hi, is that Dave?'

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-It is, yeah.

-Hi, it's Michelle from Interpol Manchester.

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-Hi, are you OK?

-'Hello, yeah, I've ran that name through,

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'first name and her surname, and there's no hit on there.'

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-All right. Take care, thanks, see you. Bye.

-Bye.

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I'm going to have to disappoint you.

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You're not wanted.

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Despite her protests, she won't be taken to the police station tonight,

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leaving Dave to wonder why she wanted to be arrested in the first place.

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I've never had anybody as insistent as that before, no.

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I mean, she got dressed, she got ready.

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She were ready to go, weren't she? She were really insistent.

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Dave and Tom take Ladislav back to the police station,

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where he's processed before being sent to his extradition hearing.

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As for the woman hiding in the cupboard with him,

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further investigation revealed she HAD been in trouble

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in the Czech Republic.

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While living in the UK,

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she'd been found guilty of theft in a court back home.

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But because the sentence was suspended,

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there was no arrest warrant.

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Her partner will have to go back to the Czech Republic

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to face justice by himself.

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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit

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are back on the streets of London hunting for a killer.

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Kamil Borkowski is a murderer on the run from Poland,

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where he was convicted for kicking a man to death.

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The detectives suspect he's hiding somewhere in these blocks of flats.

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Hello?

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When DS Pete Rance and his team came here two days ago,

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there was no answer.

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My gut feeling is there's not anyone in there, cos you'd have heard.

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We've exhausted what we can do here today.

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But they haven't given up.

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They've kept an eye on the flat

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and now they've come back, convinced there's someone inside.

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We came back yesterday afternoon and were able to see the female

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inside the address, and the positioning of the blinds

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had changed so we knew that people had been inside,

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as well as seeing her there.

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Decided to come back and give it another try this morning.

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This time, they won't take no for an answer.

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Morning, it's the police, can you open the door, please?

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Morning. I can see your feet.

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It's the police, can you open the door, please?

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I can see your feet, so you don't need to creep about.

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I can see you again, tiptoeing back through to the living room.

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Do you want to open the door?

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They've spotted the partner of the man they're after

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sneaking around inside.

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But now, she has nowhere left to hide.

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Open the door, please.

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She tiptoed into the kitchen.

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If she refuses to open the door,

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the detectives now have the power to force entry into the property.

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Open the door, please, it's the police.

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-Pete? Pete?

-Yeah.

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-There's two people in there.

-Yeah, yeah.

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Open the door, mate. Kamil, come and open the door.

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Pete.

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-Just stop screaming, stop

-BLEEP.

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Police. Is Kamil here?

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Where is he?

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-All right, come out. Put your hands up.

-Hands up.

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No, no, no. Stop.

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We had a gut feeling that he was still linked to this address

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and still with her. And it's proven to be...

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That gut feeling has proven to be...

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instinct's proven to be right.

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This way, this way.

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It's taken more than six months, but the team have finally got their man.

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OK, mind your head.

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Just sit. Stay this side, stay this side.

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Going to put your seatbelt on, all right?

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All right.

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Well done, mate.

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We've got to get lucky, and we got lucky this morning again,

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although, we've... I suppose, if we were to sort of...

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..try and put a positive on it, we'd say we've made our own luck

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here today, so, very pleased.

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Another dangerous man in custody.

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Kamil Borkowski has dodged the law and evaded capture for six years,

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but now, the extradition team's persistence has finally paid off.

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Persistence is a key quality in the work that we work with here.

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You know, we never give up on these warrants.

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If the warrants are outstanding, we do our very best to ensure,

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if there is some intelligence,

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that intelligence is followed up and acted on.

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So a lot of the cases that we deal with may lay dormant for a while,

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but they never actually go away.

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At some stage, they're going to get re-looked at,

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and if the people are here, we're confident that we'll find them.

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And for the team, there's the satisfaction of knowing

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that a dangerous man is now on his way out of the country.

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In a case like Borkowski, where he's convicted of killing

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somebody else, you know, there has to be a consideration that,

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if he's done that in a foreign jurisdiction,

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what's to stop him coming over here and getting drunk

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and doing it again?

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One of the key areas and aspects of our work

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is that we feel we assist London because a dangerous criminal

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in a foreign jurisdiction could be a dangerous criminal here.

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If we can extradite them, take them into custody,

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get them off the streets, if that's what's needed,

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then we're taking away some of the risk that those people

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might present to people that live and work in London.

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Caught red-handed with guns and drugs,

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dangerous gangster Mark Lilley was sentenced to 23 years behind bars.

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But he'd already gone on the run,

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and had managed to outwit the law for 13 years.

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He was living a life, he was living it under a different name,

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different identity. For a period of time,

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he managed to stay one step ahead of us, and he was probably

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moving quite regularly at that point to evade detection.

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But the search for Lilley never stopped,

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and all the clues pointed to Spain.

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By the time Inspector Olga Lizana took over

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as head of the Spanish National Police Fugitives Unit,

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Lilley had been in hiding for more than ten years.

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You could not imagine how much time it took me to check

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all the information, because it was not a new case, it was an old case,

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so you have to check everything again.

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Olga's diligence paid off when she finally tracked him down

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to this hilltop villa. It was surrounded by ten-foot-high walls,

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and she had no idea what lay behind them.

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We didn't know how many people were in the house.

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We were not sure if they'd got guns or not,

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so you have to cover all those things

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and be prepared for whatever happens.

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Olga launched a strike on the compound.

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Mobilising a team of more than 40 armed officers with air support,

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the villa was surrounded as a tactical unit swarmed over the gate.

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Armed police stormed the villa

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and smashed in the front door with a battering ram.

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Once inside, officers searched the house for the man who now topped

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the list of Britain's most wanted.

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But there was no sign of him.

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The guys there were telling me that Lilley was not in the house.

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They had checked the whole house, and they didn't find the guy.

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Somehow, the fugitive appeared to have evaded capture once again.

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But Olga wasn't giving up.

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I was sure he was there.

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I just said, "Well, nobody's moving from here till we find him!"

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It was a critical decision.

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They swept the house a second time.

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A closer look inside a row of wardrobes revealed a slight oddity

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that was to prove crucial.

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The wooden panel at the back of one of them

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was slightly different to the rest.

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One of the police officers that was checking that area realised that

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one of the wardrobes was not similar to the other.

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So they started taking all the things out of there

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and then they found the door.

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Behind the wooden panel was a solid steel door.

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They'd found the secret entrance to a fortified panic room.

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Hidden inside was the gangster.

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We knew he was inside the panic room,

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so I told him, if he didn't open the door,

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I'm going through the whole wall to get you.

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So he decided to open.

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Olga's threat to smash down the wall to get him

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convinced Lilley the game was up.

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The door opened, and she could finally size up the man

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she'd been hunting for so long.

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He was so big that we couldn't use just one handcuffs.

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We had to use two because of the size of his arm.

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News that Lilley was finally back in handcuffs delighted officers

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in the UK, where a 23-year prison sentence awaited him.

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We think he'd been alerted y the dogs in the garden,

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when the police officers first started going over the wall.

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We think they'd alerted Lilley, so he'd then at that point run inside.

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He didn't have many clothes on,

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so he'd obviously been caught on the hop, as it were.

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He'd just rushed in there,

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and then he'd watched everything unfold from inside.

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Throughout the raid, Lilley had been hidden behind

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the heavy steel door, watching the police's every move

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on secret surveillance cameras.

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He could control the whole house with the cameras.

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So he thought that we were not going to find the panic room,

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so he was just there waiting for us to leave.

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His secret hideout had been planned well in advance,

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and cleverly constructive.

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The panic room where Lilley was located,

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it's like something out of a film, isn't it?

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There was CCTV that covered the grounds, covered the house,

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so he could watch the Spanish national police come in over the wall,

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and he could see whereabouts in the house they were.

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He had the forethought and the planning to think,

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"I might need a panic room one day."

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And he'd actually taken time to install it,

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and it was very well hidden within the house.

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You know, it wasn't an amateur job, it was quite well concealed.

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So it shows how much he feared being caught.

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And this is probably one of the reasons why it took us so long

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to find him, it did take 13 years,

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because he was obviously very well-resourced,

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he was obviously very well-prepared,

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and he was determined to stay hidden.

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And the man they arrested looked nothing like the man who had fled

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British justice all those years before.

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He'd changed his appearance massively.

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He'd bulked up an incredible amount,

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got lots of different tattoos.

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He'd changed facially.

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Obviously he'd been out in Spain for along time, so he was very tanned.

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So if you put his picture next to one from 13 years previous,

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you perhaps wouldn't necessarily know they were the same individual.

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But Olga knew she'd got her man.

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She hopes Lilley's arrest will act as a warning to any other

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British criminals thinking of going on the run.

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This is not a safe place for British fugitives any more.

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I think that's the message -

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don't come to Spain.

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In August 2013, Mark Lilley was flown back to the UK.

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After a failed appeal, he finally started his 23-year sentence.

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Kamil Borkowski was extradited back to Poland in August 2016

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to serve out his sentence for murder.

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-Get down, now! Tom!

-Coming.

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And Ladislav Ziga, who'd concealed himself in a cupboard,

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was sent back to the Czech Republic in June of the same year

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without his hide-and-seek partner.

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