Briton wanted in connection with murder in UK arrested after joint operation involving Maltese and British police (Updated with police statement)
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A Briton wanted in connection with a homicide has been arrested in Malta after a covert operation involved Maltese and British police.
The Times of Malta reports that the man was on Europe’s ‘most wanted’ list.
It is reported that the man was kept under surveillance for a number of days before the arrest, and was found to have been using a false identity.
A European arrest warrant had been issued for the man, who will be arraigned in court in the coming days.
According to sources quoted by the Times of Malta, the man was Christopher Guest More, who is wanted for the murder of Brian Waters, in Cheshire in 2003.
Waters was tortured and beaten to death in front of his two adult children, forced to watch the murder at gunpoint.
The Malta Independent says this is the eighth arrest carried out this year by the Malta police following a European arrest warrant.
Metro News reports that detectives have been searching for Christopher Guest More Jr since he left the country shortly after the murder of Brian Waters, who was tortured and beaten to death in front of his two adult children at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, near Knutsford, in June 2003.
More, 41, who a court heard described himself an undercover journalist, has links to Spain, Malta and South America, but detectives believe he could be anywhere.
Former undercover BBC researcher James Raven, 60, Otis Matthews, 41, and John Wilson, 69, are serving life sentences after being convicted of Mr Waters’ murder.
Mr More is alleged to have been with the men when they stormed the derelict property, where Mr Waters was running a cannabis farm, in a row over a drugs debt.
When in April the More was put on European most wanted list, detective Superintendent Sarah Pengelly said this was a significant step forward in our bid to locate him and I hope that this latest development will help to generate a renewed interest in this case and, most importantly, valuable information as to his whereabouts.
Updated with police statement : “Following days of surveillance, where the Malta Police authority co-operated with the British authorities, a British person was arrested on bases of an European Arrest Warrant. This operation named OP MORE, took place yesterday by the members of the Criminal Intelligence Unit.
The arrested person was making use of a false identity and is expected to be arraigned in court in the coming days to commence his extradition process.
This same person is wanted by the British authorities as he was involved in a homicide.
These intensive operations take place to continue the fight against organized crime.”
