Liverpool's most notorious fugitive - wanted for two separate and chilling murders - has been seen just a FORTNIGHT ago.
That's according to an eyewitness who has told a former TV detective he has set his sights on finding wanted criminal Kevin Parle.
Peter Bleksley, who made his name on TV show Hunted, travelled up to Liverpool last week, vowing to catch the double killer.
The ex-Met Police detective believes he can bring 6ft 6ins Parle to justice, despite him not being apprehended for 15 years now.
And the ECHO can reveal that, after just a handful of weeks into his new mission, Bleksley has received a hugely encouraging tip-off.
The former Scotland Yard man claims to have spoken to a source who reckons they spotted Parle as recently as April 20.
Bleksley, who has built a following as The Chief on the hit Channel 4 show, told the ECHO: "I've had a phone call from the same source, on two separate occasions, from a man who firmly believes he saw Kevin Parle around a week ago.
"He gave me the date, the time, and the location... it's not in the UK, and I have passed that information onto Merseyside Police.
"In first instance, as I'm in Liverpool, it's only right I gave that information to the police as they have the international links.
"I didn't disclose the identity of my source."
Parle, who was privately educated, has long been top of Merseyside Police's list of major suspects they would like to question for some time.
The bald fugitive is wanted in connection with the murders of Walton mum Lucy Hargreaves and Toxteth teenager Liam Kelly.
Ms Hargreaves, 22, was under a duvet on the sofa in her front room in Lambourne Road when three men burst in in August 2005, fired a shotgun at her and then torched the house.
Her two-year-old daughter was sleeping upstairs at the time.
The popular mum was not believed to have been the intended target of the gun attack, described as “one of the most brutal” investigating detectives had ever come across.
Fourteen months earlier Liam Kelly, just 16, was gunned down in Grafton Street .
After getting a number of phone calls, he went to a meeting point only to be met by Anthony Campbell, with whom he had been arguing over a £200 debt.
A trial in 2007 heard Campbell turned up with Parle, who the court was told was believed to have fired the fatal shot.
Campbell, then 20 and from Dingle, was jailed for life over the teenager’s murder.
Several people, including Parle, were arrested in connection with the murder.
Parle, who has a one-inch scar on the left side of his head, was questioned and released on police bail.
He failed to answer bail and a warrant was later issued for his arrest.
Bleksley told the ECHO: "Unbelievably, Parle has evaded capture for all these years.
"It's now my intention to find out as much as I can possibly can about Parle, and put that information into the public domain which may help people recognise him.
"The somebody will pick up the phone and say, you know what, somebody fitting that description, as he's 6ft 6ins, lives at such and such.
"It may just bring his time on the run to an end.
"Enough is enough.
"Over 14 years, he needs to answer the allegations against him, he needs to face justice, he needs to be in a court of law."
There were rumours he had fled to America, before further claims surfaced in 2016 that he was hiding out in Perth, Australia.
Huge cash rewards have been offered for information leading to his capture but Parle, nicknamed "Hemp" , remains on the run.
Anyone with information about Parle is asked to contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or Merseyside Police on 101.
