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    Appeal Over UK's 'Most Wanted' In Netherlands

    Police are hunting another nine fugitives wanted in the UK but thought to be on the run in the Netherlands.

    The majority of the suspects on the new Most Wanted list are drug dealers, but also include a convicted rapist and an armed robber.

    Two are escapees from prison, while one of them has been at large for more than five years.

    They are all thought to be hiding in or around the Dutch capital Amsterdam, which is earning a reputation as the new Costa del Crime.

    In the past three years, 83 British fugitives - 10 of them wanted for murder - have been arrested in the Netherlands.

    British Ambassador Paul Arkwright told Sky News: "We understand why Holland, and Amsterdam in particular, is a place for fugitives to head for because it is close, English is widely spoken and there is a large ex-pat community in which to hide.

    "But the Dutch police are getting good at catching these people and sending them back to the UK. They don't want them here."

    It is easy to see why British criminals would feel at home in Amsterdam because the city centre is dotted with familiar retailers such as McDonalds, H&M, Body Shop and countless English and Irish-themed pubs.

    The licensed sex and cannabis trade provides an underworld for newly-arrived criminals to exploit, although the Dutch government has tried to rid the country of its city-sleaze reputation.

    The 70,000 ex-pats registered in the Netherlands are being urged to study the new mugshots and call police or the charity Crimestoppers if they think they recognise any of the fugitives.

    Dave Cording, deputy chief executive of Crimestoppers UK, launched the latest appeal in Amsterdam.

    He said: "This follows our recent success of Operation Captura in Spain earlier this year , where two of the 10 subjects were arrested within 48 hours of the launch.

    "I hope this success will be replicated in the Netherlands.

    "Not only is the campaign successful in tracking people wanted for serious offences, but it displaces them as well, but as we can see, no matter where these wanted individuals run to, law enforcement will find them.

    "I hope this further reinforces to fugitives that you can run, but can't hide forever."

    Since Crimestoppers began its Most Wanted appeals three years ago, it has appealed for information on 60 fugitives - 44 of whom have been tracked down.

    Some of those thought originally to be hiding in Spain have been caught in the Netherlands.

    Commissaris Liesbeth Huyzer, of the Amsterdam police, said: "It's not easy to find these people because there are facilitators to help them with false documents, transport and places to stay.

    "But we are having increasing success in locating them and sending them back to the UK."

    :: Details of the latest fugitive hunt can be found on the Crimestoppers website .

     

    85 comments

    • David  •  8 months ago
      I was rather surprised to learn that convicted murderers and other hardened felons are so into H & M and the Body Shop.
    • D4RION  •  8 months ago
      @#$% 'utter madness''' noooooooooooooooooooooooooo sending them back to the uk,,, kick them out over afghanistan,, be more effective and dam cheaper
    • Martin  •  8 months ago
      funny how everybody sends british criminals back here yet we cannot send there garbage back ? just a thought mr cameron .
    • Voice of Reason  •  8 months ago
      Most other countries, even the more liberal ones like Holland, take a firm stand against criminals, whether they be natives or immigrants.

      This is in stark contrast to the insane UK system where criminals are made to feel welcome and are treated better than the victims of their crimes.

      UK borders are still wide open so all the planet's lowlifes can rush over here and establish themselves in the country's booming underworld whilst claiming loads of benefits and campaigning for their endless list of human rights when the law tries to bring them to justice.

      Rule, Britannia!!
    • Emma  •  8 months ago
      Why do we always get the crap of the world!? That doesn't look anything like a British man send him to the middle east or something! He's nothing to do with us so why are we getting him back for? I bet he's any lived in this country for a couple of months.
    • ian  •  8 months ago
      The trouble with Society today, is that we have a generation which has been allowed to get away with too much. Which, sure enough, allows them to presume they are "untouchable" and can go around terrorising the law abiding members of community, mainly the most vulnerable ie the elderly, the disabled to name just a few, and laugh in the face of our judicial system. If anyone dares to either challenge or stand up to them, well I think we all know what happens there, I recall wnhat happened what happened to "Gary Newlove" from Warrington in 2007.

      The answer to all of this is simple: Close all UK borders to the so called 'ecconimic migrants'. Deport all convicted foriegn nationals back to thier country off origin, instead of keeping them in our prisons and allowing them to remain here afterwards. Issue fewer 'student visas'. Stop the softly, softly attitude towards convicted criminals - mainly drug abusers. Allow parents and schools to enforce discipline if necessary. And the most important solution would be to bring back 'National Service'.

      I believe the above would help to bring this Country back to being a respectable Society in which we can all live in relative harmony.

      But the "so-called" Leaders, in my oppinion, haven't got the "testicular fortitude" to do anything resembling this. The majority seem to sit in Parliment, making all the right sounds about cutting crime etc, but do nothing except cut rescources for the Police and other agencies. All this whilst cheating on thier expenses and stealing from the public purse, and when they get caught, claim a defense of "it was in the permitted Rules". So I ask who are the real "criminals"?

      Comments / Replies please.
    • John B  •  8 months ago
      Yes there are a lot of Brits living abroad. The very big difference is they have to pay their way, unlike the scum arriving on our shores. Think about that Leo.
    • Pauli2Hands  •  8 months ago
      ... and so Yahoo doesn't post the photos of these Nine to help out?!?!?!
    • Barry-  •  8 months ago
      "But the Dutch police are getting good at catching these people and sending them back to the UK. They don't want them here."

      We in the UK don't want foreign criminals here either. But our gutless politicians won't give our police the resources to find them, nor the powers to send them back to where they come from.
      The gates of Britain are open, and all manner of scum are free to sneak in. Once in, if they do get caught, all they have to do is 'claim' asylum. They are then free to roam our country to do as they wish.

      We need to close our borders, and only allow in those that have valid visas. And all those who sneak in over the channel should be sent straight back to the EU country (usually France) they sneaked in from. And if they try claiming asylum whilst here they should be told to make their asylum claim in France, or the first EU country they landed in.
    • Golden Mouldy  •  8 months ago
      Absolutely over the moon that the Dutch police are so zealous in locating and extraditing British criminals back to the UK. Any chance our cops can be just as zealous in locating and extraditing foreign criminals back to their countries of origin?

      Oh sorry, forgot, the cops catch em but clever lawyers, paid millions by us, get them asylum on the grounds that they would face capital punishment, or that they are a persecuted minority, sub text, they are "Known to the police" back home.
    • Voice of Reason  •  8 months ago
      Actually Leo, the vast majority of Brits who live abroad are decent, hard-working, law abiding people who pay their way instead of living off the host state and turning to crime.

      They have chosen to abandon this sinking ship of a nation and live in a better country where they have more freedom and are not continually subjected to extensive politically correct rules, over regulation and steep taxation.

      The great majority of ex-pats live within the law of the country that have moved to, and respect the natives and their customs, unlike most of the immigrants who arrive here and expect Brits to respect and adopt their foreign way of life.

      Brits abroad pay their way, and are not like a large proportion of immigrants who come to the UK and get free accommodation, free transport and other benefits.

      THAT is the key difference.
    • Confused  •  8 months ago
      These criminals are actually on a public funded holiday, it's part of their rehabilitation programme that is meant to gently introduce them back into society. It is important that they learn the error of their ways and Holland is a great place for them to visit. They will learn the concepts of good relationship building with the opposite sex. They will learn the art of farming and crop production all in the hope that they can transfer these skills and build a good life for themselves when they return to the UK. If not they will go home to their family in prison where they can play, be educated write a novel, keep fit and have their human rights fulfilled to bursting point.
    • CLOSS  •  8 months ago
      How many of them are actually British? I mean not just the fact that their human rights have decreed they are entitled to live here? Bet at least 50% if not more are foreign scumbags who should be sent to Afghanistan to clean the toilets.
    • Bloke down the pub  •  8 months ago
      Zach X, I suggest that you stop reading so much pseudo history, downright fantasy,conspiracy theory, @#$% occult and mumbo jumbo. These books are written by people who have already made up their minds on a theory and then scrape around for tenuous "proof" ignoring evidence which they do not like. Historical theories are made by carefully assembling evidence, weighing it up and then proposing a theory on the basis of this.
      Oh, and by the way, I taught and lectured in histoy for 31 years before I retired.
    • Roadrunner  •  8 months ago
      Martin...how right you are. Still we accept any old garbage here!!!! Mr C needs to get his head out of his back side..and really look at what is going on in UK!!! We`ve become the dustbin of the world, and we SHOULD be looking after our own first. Take care of the "olds" for a start....a lot of who fought for us...looking at it now..what did they fight for?
      Those who have died will be turning in their graves to see how this "lovely country" has descended into the pits!!!
    • Istvan the Mildly Naughty  •  7 months ago
      If the Americans can have a prison on Cuban territory, why can't we do something similar? I'm thinking, perhaps, of a large facility in Afghanistan where highly undesirables - career criminals, major drug dealers, facilitators for syndicates, rapists, Jeffrey Archer, lawyers - could be kept. Escape would be made possible . . . but undesirable. Simples.
    • OBYWON  •  8 months ago
      has anyone else noticed realised....that the media/police never mention the nationality of the criminals now.....they used to say what type of accent....etc which would help.....but not allowed to anymore......its a fact 90% of the crimes are done by foreigners.....but they never mention this....cos the gov has f--- up and we are overun now with scum like this who shouldnt be here and cant get work....
    • B  •  8 months ago
      if the dutch police are that good lets pay them to come over here and catch all the illegal immigrants living over here,that would be good.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 months ago
      The photo headlining this article is NOT of a BRITISH man,its some sort of middle eastern muslim shi*,let Amsterdam keep them,after all we have enough immigrant scum in our prisons,WHY ? is it that we dont boot out these immigrant criminals back to where they originate from.Clarke is moaning about lack of space in our jails,remove all these scum and there will be room to spare.
    • Confused  •  8 months ago
      In response to Zach X.
      Actually the Aryan originated in Wimbledon, there they built up a race of beings that lived underground and only surfaced to collect rubbish from the common. With large pointed noses and big ears some say that Lord Wellington and Gary Liniker are direct descendants. Historical records show that several became big figureheads and gave their names to Rivers cities and countries. Orinoco, Wellington, Tomsk and Uncle Bulgaria to name but a few.
      The head female a Madame Cholet gave here name to a small town in France, she was also a wicked saxophonist and was said to be the instigator of modern Jazz.
      Noted for their musical talents they produced several chart topping hits and influenced many of our modern bands such as Mcfly Avril Lavigne and Girls Aloud.
      They disappeared from public view during the late 1970's when scandal ripped through their ranks. National newspapers reported that Orinoco had been having an affair with Margaret Thatcher which was denied, however further reports that Tobemory had joined an Islamic fundamentalist group caused outrage and they were forced into hiding. Recent reports suggest that he has been killed and buried at sea. To escape they went undergound overground wombling free and have not been seen since. However some say that Anthony Worrell Thompson is the love child of Orinoco and Thatcher. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE ! dooby dooby dooby dooby.