People are being urged not to approach 24 of the UK's most wanted criminals and call 999 immediately if they see them.
The list of men from the National Crime Agency (NCA) are accused of a litany of crimes including murder, rape and drug smuggling. NCA have been trying to track some of these men down for almost two decades and are asking the public for help.
Three of them men are from the Merseyside area or are wanted in connection was awful crimes that happened in the city.
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The NCA said: "We pursue criminals and bring them to justice. By informing communities and supporting other agencies, we can help identify criminals and speed the law enforcement process".
The NCA warns that members of the public must not approach anyone featured on this list. In an emergency, please call 999.
Kevin Thomas Parle
Parle is wanted in connection with the murders in Liverpool of 16-year-old Liam Kelly in 2004 and Lucy Hargreaves in 2005. Parle, also known as 'Hemp', is said to be stocky, with short cropped ginger hair.
John James Jones
The 32-year-old, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, is wanted for wounding with intent after allegedly stabbing two victims with a knife. He is believed to have fled the UK in the immediate aftermath and is thought to have stayed at a hotel in Madrid the night before leaving the next day.
Mark Francis Roberts
Roberts, 29, from Liverpool is wanted for alleged grievous bodily harm and the attempted robbery of a man’s £60,000 Richard Mille watch. The victim was attacked by two men with a blade at around 1.30am on 30 September 2016 when he parked his car on his home driveway.
The victim refused to surrender his watch and suffered life-threatening injuries in the aftermath. He was treated in a critical care unit for puncture wounds, a collapsed lung and many lacerations.
Alex Male
Male, of Weston-super-Mare, is wanted on suspicion of buying and selling drugs and managing other distributors operating under his instruction using the EncroChat network. The NCA has accused Male of conspiracy to supply cocaine and ketamine, money laundering, and conspiracy to acquire a firearm.
He is understood to be aged 30- and around six foot tall. Male has distinctive tattoos including a skull on his Adam's apple, a full sleeve on his left arm, the word ‘love’ on his left hand and three stars tattooed on his left wrist.
He also has a full tribal sleeve tattoo on his right arm going onto his chest with an angel on his back and ‘live’ tattooed on his right hand.
Jack Mayle
The heavily tattooed 31-year-old from Croydon, south London, is wanted on suspicion of supplying Class A drug MDMA and other drugs. He was suspected of running a drug line in south London and allegedly worked with a dark web drugs supplier.
Mayle had a tattooed neck, a diamond tattoo under his left eye and ‘Croydon’ inked on the outside of his left forearm although he may have altered his appearance. Mayle is known to carry weapons.
Daniel Dugic
Originally from Serbia, Dugic is suspected of being involved in a plot to import 255 kilos of cocaine. The conspiracy involved a small UK vessel meeting a commercial container ship in the English Channel from which the drugs were transferred.
Although Dugic was not on board either vessel, he is alleged to have played a major part in organising the importation. A number of other individuals were convicted in June 2011.
Ozgur Demir
Demir, a Turkish national, is wanted in connection with conspiracy to supply 17.83 kg of diamorphine. Three others have already been convicted in connection with this offence.
Asim Naveed and Calvin Parris
Muscular Naveed, 31, is accused of playing a leading role in an organised crime group responsible for trafficking 46 kilos of cocaine into Wales between February and June 2020, worth around £8 million.
Parris, 33, who has gold upper teeth, is accused of being a customer of Naveed’s OCG and selling cocaine in Cardiff.
Derek McGraw Ferguson
Ferguson is sought in connection with the murder of Thomas Cameron on June 28, 2007, at the Auchinairn Tavern, Bishopbriggs near Glasgow. He was born in Glasgow in 1964, and is described as having green or blue eyes, and short balding brown or grey hair.
Ersin Mustafa
Mustafa is suspected to have been involved in insider dealing with seven other individuals while working at the London branch of investment bank JP Morgan Cazenove, the NCA say. He is alleged to have obtained information about future acquisitions and mergers, which were provided to others who then traded using this information.
The group were said to have made approximately £2.5 million in criminal profits over a two year period. Mustafa was arrested in July 2008 and then released on bail. It is believed he fled the UK around December 2009.
Shazad Ghafoor
Ghafoor is wanted after skipping bail. He allegedly took a courtesy car from a dealership in Manchester in August 2013 using a driving license in another person’s name.
Police spotted the car and the pursuit ended in the Halifax area when he allegedly crashed. His wife and two children, who were also in the car, suffered minor injuries.
Cash of up to £100,000 was allegedly recovered and there were traces of heroin, cocaine and cannabis on the notes. Ghafoor was charged with fraud, possession of criminal property, dangerous driving and disqualified driving.
Allen Foster
Foster is alleged to have murdered David 'Noddy' Rice at the Marsden Bay Car Park, South Shields on 24th May 2006.
Foster, who has links to the Canary Islands and Majorca and is known to use the alias Shaun Michael Wilkinson, is also wanted for two offences of conspiring to supply controlled drugs and also for the theft of a diamond ring.
Christakis Philippou
Philippou is alleged to have been involved in a holiday scam which defrauded about 20,000 people. Between 2004 and 2006 he and others are suspected of acquiring or setting up new travel agencies offering cut price holidays, with prices so low that legitimate companies could not compete with them.
The travel agencies then closed and left customers without a holiday. Philippou is also known to use the alias Christakis Chrysostomou.
Timur Mehmet
Mehmet was sentenced in his absence to eight years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to cheat the public revenue by operating a Missing Trader Intra-community (MTIC) fraud. The NCA said the fraud caused a loss to the UK of £25 million.
Mehmet appeared in court in June 2007 but failed to attend his trial, and was convicted in his absence then sentenced.
Callum Michael Allan
Allan, 24, of South Shields, is wanted for 12 alleged offences including possession with intent to supply heroin and cocaine, possession of cannabis, assaulting an emergency worker, affray and dangerous driving.
On 11 June 2019 police raided a house suspected to be used for drug deals. Allan fled and assaulted two officers who restrained him. He was in possession of 113.29 grams of heroin. He was charged and appeared at court in April 2020 where he was given unconditional bail and failed to return.
Fatah Benlaredj
Benlaredj, also known by the nickname Samir, is wanted for the rape of a seven-year-old girl.
Costas Sampson
Sampson was convicted of raping a girl he met in a London nightclub. He and a friend offered to take her home after she became unwell when she'd accepted a drink from a stranger. Sampson, a Cypriot national also known to use the alias Kostas, told one of the girl’s friends that he was a medical expert. He later raped the girl at her flat while she was incapacitated.
He was convicted in August 2012 of rape and other offences including stealing her mobile phone and her flatmate’s laptop and games console.
Shashi Dhar Sahnan
Shanan is accused of being involved in importing heroin into the UK. Police and HMRC seized a 'huge quantity' of drugs in 2007 which had been concealed in packaging surrounding air conditioning units.
Born in India, Sahnan has brown eyes and wears an overt hearing aid in his right ear which sits over the ear.
Mehmet Salih
Salih is accused of being involved in drug dealing, after police seized cocaine. Salih allegedly visited Lincolnshire to deliver the drugs which were later seized.
He was arrested and was allegedly in possession of £20,000. Salih, a Cypriot national who has a scar on his right eye, was released on bail to appear at a police station later in the year but failed to attend.
John Barton
Barton was sentenced to 20 years in jail in his absence after being convicted of conspiring to import a 'commercial' amount of heroin into the UK between 1999 and 2000. He is believed to have links to Fuengirola in Spain.
Jonathon Kelly
The NCA say Kelly is 'extremely violent' and 'poses a high risk to both police and members of the public'.
He is wanted by on recall to prison to serve his remaining prison sentence.
After receiving sentences in excess of 16 years, Kelly was released in September 2013.
Rezgar Zengana
Zengana posed as a taxi driver and went on to rape a 25-year-old woman in Glasgow in 2006.
The Iraqi national was convicted of rape but has not been sentenced.
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