In the grip of armed Maltese police and wearing an orange jumpsuit he is led from prison, and driven in a convoy to the airport.
There is one defiant shrug against an officer as he is led towards steps and onto a plane.
It is the end of 16 years on the run for fugitive Christopher Guest More Jr, who fled the UK in 2003.
He was finally arrested in June 2019 after being branded one of Europe's most wanted.
Today, at Chester Crown Court, he was jailed for life and must serve a minimum of 24 years after being convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
He evaded capture after changing his name to Andrew Lamb, settling in Malta with a partner and enjoying a luxurious lifestyle.
He became a businessman dealing in exports and imports and a yacht captain.
But what his clients and the holidaymakers on the yachts he was commissioned to run didn't know was that he was involved in the four-hour torture of 44-year-old Brian Waters, who died, and Suleman Razak, who survived, at a cannabis farm in rural Cheshire in June 2003.
At the time More, now 43, was working as an undercover TV researcher.
Two days after the killing, More flew to Spain with his then-partner, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
His girlfriend moved on to Ibiza to meet friends but More stayed in Malaga where his father, Christopher Guest More senior, flew out to see him the following month and returned with More’s phone.
His father was later sentenced to nine months in prison for assisting an offender.
During a trial at Chester Crown Court, More junior told the jury he spent about six months in Spain and then travelled to South Africa, using a fake passport, before moving to Mozambique, Turkey and eventually settling in Malta, where police say he lived from 2007.
Using the identity of Andrew Lamb, who was actually an adult living in a care home, More worked as a captain of luxury yachts and negotiated deals for import and export business.
The trial heard he had sent surveyors to Tangier port after being invited by the Moroccan royal family and discussed deals to deliver goods to countries such as Iran and Libya.
In his closing speech, Nigel Power QC, prosecuting, told the jury More must have “told lie after lie” to his girlfriend of 15 years, who did not know he was on the run for murder.
Sarah Pengelly, who was head of the major investigation team at Cheshire Police before she retired earlier this year, said: “He was essentially involved in import/export, he also had a role as a yacht captain, all of which was under his assumed identity, his false identity of Andrew Lamb, and he established himself in the community, he had a partner out in Malta and to all intents and purposes he was an affluent businessman living a luxury lifestyle.”
At the time of his arrest, More worked out of Portomaso harbour, was living in a new-build apartment in the town of Swieqi in northern Malta but had previously been living in a large house with a swimming pool, police said.
He drove a white Porsche Cayenne.
In 2019, the fugitive was put onto Europe’s most wanted list, which police said led to two crucial pieces of intelligence coming to light.
Ms Pengelly said: “We recognised that we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but being able to essentially reach into almost every law enforcement agency in Europe and really push forward and try and ask for intelligence and information about who he was, who he was representing himself to be, what identity he had, that was a real game-changer for us.”
On June 6, 2019, the European Arrest Warrant for More was executed and, although he originally claimed in court in Malta that he was Andrew Lamb and not a wanted man, he was later extradited to the UK to stand trial.
His first trial, in March, was halted after just three days when a juror was discharged and a second trial ended in May with the jury unable to agree on a verdict.
A third trial began in November and resulted in More being found guilty of Mr Waters’ murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm to Mr Razak.
'Barbaric' torture and murder
During the murder at Burnt House Farm near Knutsford on June 19, 2003, Mr Waters was tortured and killed in front of his daughter Natalie, who had just turned 21, and son Gavin, while his wife Julie was abducted from the family home and driven to the farm.
Mr Waters and Mr Razak, who survived the four-hour ordeal, were tied up and suspended from rafters, beaten, dropped in barrels of liquid, had staple guns used on their bodies and were assaulted with a metal bar.
When police arrived at the scene, following a call made from a phone box by Wilson’s driver David Moran, they found a bag containing cigarette ends, drinks bottles and even a bag of faeces which all had traces of More’s DNA.
Three other men – John Wilson, now aged 71, James Raven, now aged 61, and Otis Matthews, now aged 44 – have previously been convicted between 2004-2007 of the same offences. More Jr was a close associate of them all.
At the heart of this dispute was illegal drugs – and the result of a significant drugs debt supposedly owed by Mr Waters to Wilson, a well-known drug dealer from Manchester.
Mr Waters, who had been involved in drugs for a number of years, had been using Burnt House Farm as a base for growing cannabis – he jointly rented the farm with a friend.
Suleman Razak, who was 20 at the time, often helped to tend to the plants, which were housed within the farmhouse on the site.
Wilson had discovered that Mr Waters had his own cannabis farm and set about trying to find its location. He asked More Jr for help with this as he was experienced in undercover and surveillance work for individuals and media companies.
More Jr, who lived in Lymm, and was 25, claimed at the time of the murder he was completing background research to locate a cannabis farm for covert filming as part of a television documentary.
He had previously done undercover TV work, including with journalist Donal McIntyre.
However, More Jr had already been cast adrift by the television company some months before this and the documentary he claimed to be researching for was transmitted within days of the murder.
Detective Inspector Kate Tomlinson said: “Today, Christopher Guest More Jr has been sentenced to life in prison to serve a minimum term of 24 years for the brutal murder of Brian Waters at Burnt House Farm in Tabley.
“He was also sentenced to 14 years in prison – to run concurrently – for conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent against Suleman Razak.
“This brings to an end a long journey for all those involved and I hope that the conclusion of this case helps the family of Brian Waters and Suleman Razak to finally move forward with their lives knowing that Christopher Guest More Jr has been brought to justice and is now behind bars for a very long time.”
In a statement Mr Waters family said: "We have remained a close-knit family and have provided much-needed support to each other – but this has been an isolating experience for us and not only have we lived in fear of reprisals we have also struggled to trust others as we normally would.
"It’s similar to the feelings people have experienced in the current COVID crisis – not being able to leave their home and having to stay inside to feel safe. We have been living like that for more than 18 years.
"But we never gave up hope and the verdict today marks the end of an incredibly painful journey in our lives. We would now ask that our privacy is respected and we are left alone as a family as we try and move forward with the next chapter."
