A Liverpool man has been arrested in Spain after allegedly trying to shoot police officers following a high-speed chase.
Officers confirmed earlier this week they had arrested a 22-year-old British man accused of trying to shoot plain-clothes officers after evading a drink-drive stop.
Today it emerged the man in custody was Rhys Nze, who was handed a three year and four month detention order in a young offenders’ institution in November 2016 for a stabbing which left a woman needing 177 stitches.
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Nze was banned from a swathe of Toxteth in Liverpool aged just 15 as a result of an ASBO.
He is now being held at a prison near Malaga after being remanded in custody by an investigating judge.
Nze was held last Saturday morning near the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella.
Plain-clothes officers in an unmarked car alerted by their colleagues chased him through the town and along a dual carriageway leading out of Marbella towards Malaga with their lights flashing.
The Liverpool man allegedly opened fire just east of the resort in an area known as Rio Real after coming to a halt as police neared him from behind and throwing his motorbike on the ground.
No-one was injured in the incident, which happened around 4.30am on Saturday, June 19.
Officers said they recovered a knife and screwdriver during a subsequent search, and alleged the suspect was riding a stolen motorbike taken from an unidentified address in Mijas near Fuengirola a few days earlier.
A court official, confirming Nze’s court hearing and remand, said: “He appeared at Marbella’s Court of Instruction Number Four on Monday.
“He was remanded to prison and is being investigated on suspicion of the crimes of attempted homicide, theft of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property and forgery.”
Nze was one of 10 boys targeted with Anti-Social Behaviour Orders known as ASBOs by police for yobbish behaviour in April 2014.
Liverpool Magistrates Court heard how the gang subjected decent people in parts of Toxteth to “all manner of anti-social behaviour, crime and intimidation” over a 12-month period.
He and another teenager were locked up in November 2016 after a violent attack on two women.
The woman was slashed with a knife through tendons down to the bone on her arm as she tried to defend her friend who was on the floor.
The second woman suffered a double jaw fracture and lost a tooth after being repeatedly kicked in the face at a recreation ground in Mold, North Wales.
Nze admitted wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm using a knife with a retractable blade.
McLavey received 14 months after admitting to GBH.
The pair ran away after the attacks but were arrested a week later.
