British 'Operation Capture' campaign leads to second arrest in a week: Rapist caught in Tenerife
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 @ 7:56 AM
ANOTHER fugitive has been arrested in Spain within the first week of British charity Crimestoppers' annual 'Operation Capture' poster being distributed on the Costas.
Following the earlier arrest of 45-year-old paedophile, Londoner Matthew Sammon, in Fuengirola (Málaga province), National Police in Tenerife have arrested a rapist sentenced to 14 years in jail.
Mohammed Alam, 33, was in the UK on a temporary visa from his native Bangladesh when he raped a woman in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 2010.
He had been in Britain for three years at the time, and immediately went on the run.
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said Alam had been on the 'wanted' list for six years and was believed to be either in Spain or back in Bangladesh.
He was eating in a restaurant in the Playa de las Américas beach area of Arona, Tenerife, when he was caught.
Police in Spain say he had used several fake IDs to avoid capture, as well as constantly moving house and job.
He is due to be extradited shortly from Madrid and could be back in the UK to begin his jail sentence by mid-November.
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