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Margaret Davis

One-legged fugitive crime boss behind £8m drug deal got bus to Scotland to escape justice

A one-legged drug dealer is on the run after making his getaway via Scotland.

Fugitive Richard Wakeling fled justice when he was caught trying to import £8 million worth of liquid amphetamine into the country.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has released CCTV footage of him in a bid to help investigators hunting him down.

The clip shows him chatting to a workman before getting into his white Audi Q3, registration number EF66 ZWR and travelling from his Essex home to Heathrow.

From there he caught a bus to Glasgow , then travelled to Stranraer and boarded a ferry bound for Belfast.

Wakeling was sentenced to 11 years in his absence (PA)

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Wakeling went on the run before he had been due to go on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court in April last year when.

He convicted in his absence and sentenced to 11 years.

The NCA says he has family in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Thailand.

A week after he disappeared, his car was driven back to his home in Essex.

Richard Wakeling is on the run (PA)

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NCA operations manager Paul Green said: "Wakeling has been on the run for well over a year now and knows we are still looking for him.

"He should also know we will do everything in our power to bring him back to serve his sentence.

"I would urge him to hand himself in. I've no doubt someone seeing this appeal will have information about his whereabouts.

"Anyone helping Wakeling or actively frustrating our efforts to find him could be arrested for assisting an offender."

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