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Fugitives

Series 1

Episode 14

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC One Cambridgeshire

In West Yorkshire it is a tough shift for PC Dave Lockwood and his team. Several of the men they are searching for can't be found, but they eventually track down a man facing a year in prison for a crime he committed more than ten years ago.

The Met go in search of a violent robber with a history of going on the run - a violent offender with a prison sentence waiting for him back home in Poland.

Sunny Cyprus is a notorious hideout for British fugitives, including one multimillion-pound fraudster who thought he was untouchable. Michael Voudouri laundered eleven and half million pounds through bank accounts and business transactions, but Scottish tax officers tracked him down to a villa in Cyprus.

In 2004, Liverpool was struggling to cope with the hard drugs on sale on its streets. The police knew they had to act to break up one of the biggest drug rings ever to operate in the city. One of its leaders was Mark McKenna. He was sentenced to 16 years, but just three years later he strolled out of an open prison and went on the run. When he checked into one of Madrid's most luxurious hotels, the woman heading up the Spanish police's fugitives unit wasn't going to let him get away. Show less

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Bown
Director:
Andrew Tait
Executive Producer:
Joe Mather

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