Meet the child molester, machete attacker and ‘torturer’ among UK’s most wanted – and who could be living on your street
Many of Britain's deadliest criminals and murderers aren't behind bars where they belong - they're at large and could be hiding anywhere in the country
MURDERERS, rapists and machete attackers are among the most wanted British criminals currently on the run from the law.
There are currently 27 names on the , with 26 men and one woman earning their place on the roll-call of Britain's most wanted missing crooks.
Some of the most dangerous at-large suspects and criminals include a man accused of torturing a drug dealer in front of his family and a rapist who prayed on victims by pretending to be a taxi driver.
There are also rogue gunmen, knife-wielding killers and paedophiles on the UK most-wanted list... but the terrifying truth is that police have no idea where they could be hiding.
The NCA advises that these people are not to be approached if you see them. Instead, you're advised to keep your distance and dial 101 to tip the police off - or 999 in an emergency.
After , following his brief break out from prison this week, these are the fugitives who are still at large...
Jonathan Kelly
Machete attacker who boasted about beating gay men
Location: Glasgow
Identifying features: Scars on face
With a scarred face and wide, crazed eyes, Scotland's most wanted man is one of the nation's most dangerous missing criminals and has been on the run for the past four years.
Jonathan Kelly, from Drumchapel in Glasgow, is described as "extremely violent" and his most shocking crime saw him attack a man with a machete - leaving his victim paralysed and lucky to be alive.
This assault, along with other attacks on gangland rivals, was just one of a string of violent offences Kelly was convicted of between 2002 and 2010.
He has spent most of his adult life in prison, and faced nine charges of assaults on prison wardens and fellow inmates - as well as a charge of possessing a bladed implement behind bars.
Kelly, 37, is meant to still be serving out his 16-year sentence, but he went missing after being released on bail in 2013 - a move which caused controversy at the time.
Having cut off his electronic tag, and thought to have grown a beard, he vanished completely.
He was later linked to a gun attack - thought to be a case of mistaken identity - on a family home in September 2014.
While in prison, Kelly boasted about his violent history and attacks he had carried out on gay people, and since getting out his boasts have been even more chilling.
Described by police as "pure evil", Kelly was rumoured to have armed himself and threatened to kill any police officer who tried to apprehend him.
It has since been rumoured that he may have died of a heroin overdose or fled the country.
Shane O'Brien
Suspected stabber with a skull tattoo
Location: London
Identifying features: Birthmark on face, owl tattoo on back
Shane O'Brien is wanted in connection with an unprovoked murder at a bar in Eastcote, Hillingdon, in 2015.
The 30-year-old is suspected of fatally stabbing 21-year-old Josh Hanson in the neck as he stood at the bar.
O'Brien was thought to have chartered a plane after the alleged attack and fled to the Netherlands, and then the UAE.
He was arrested in the Czech Republic last year, but he slipped through the police's net again - earning him a place on Interpol's most wanted list as well.
The suspected killer - who has an enormous back tattoo of an owl holding a skull - has since been reportedly spotted all over the continent, from Gibraltar to Nice.
With police desperate to track him down, there's a £50,000 reward available for information which leads to his arrest and prosecution.
Christopher Guest More
'Torturer' who terrorised victim with molten plastic in front of kids
Location: Cheshire
Christopher More, 37, has spent the past 15 years on the run.
He's wanted in connection to the murder of drug dealer Brian Waters at a derelict farm in Cheshire in 2003.
Police say Moore - once an undercover reporter - and four masked accomplices entered the farmhouse to find five people there, and demanded money from them.
When they refused, Moore and his gang of thugs attacked all five - with Waters beaten so badly that he died in the scene.
A jury heard that More set up a makeshift torture chamber in the farmhouse, where he abused and beat Waters in front of his adult children.
The torturers were alleged to have strapped Waters up by ankles, dripped molten plastic on his skin and sexually assaulted him with a metal bar.
A post-mortem investigation found Waters had suffered 123 separate injuries on his body.
They also attacked and tortured his son and one of his employees while his 21-year-old daughter was made to watch.
More, however, has evaded justice all this time. He's thought to be holed up in Spain after fleeing the UK in 2003.
Costas Sampson
Nightclub rapist who claimed he was a medical expert
Location: London
Cypriot national Costas Sampson, 27, went missing in 2011 while awaiting trial for raping a girl he met in London club in 2010.
The girl became ill after accepting a drink from a stranger, and Sampson and a friend offered to take her home.
Sampson, who was found guilty in 2012, told one of the girl's friends that he was a medical expert, before taking the girl back to her flat and raping her while she was passed out.
While inside the girl's home, the sex attacker also stole her phone, laptop and games console. He has since vanished.
Derek McGraw Ferguson
Scot thought to have shot pub barman
Location: Glasgow
Derek Ferguson is wanted in connection with the 2007 murder of dad-of-three Thomas Cameron, who was shot dead at a pub in Glasgow were he worked as a barman.
53-year-old Ferguson - who may have since fled to Spain - is also wanted in relation to the death of William Bates, 43, whose body was found in an oil drum one month later.
Rezgar Zengana
Sex attacker who posed as a taxi driver
Location: Glasgow
An Iraqi national, Rezgar's Zengana is convicted of raping a 25-year-old girl, who he picked up while posing as a private-hire taxi driver in December 2006.
Zengana took his victim back to a flat in the city before sexually assaulting her. He was convicted in 2008 but fled the country before he could be sentenced.
His whereabouts is still uncertain, but police suspect the 35-year-old monster could have fled to the Netherlands.
David Ungi
Suspected shooter in street execution
Location: Liverpool
Identifying features: 5ft tall, Liverpool accent
In 2016, David Ungi became the subject of an international manhunt when police named him as a suspect in the street execution of 18-year-old Vinny Waddington in Liverpool.
Waddington was killed after a chase where three men in a car knocked him and a passenger from his motorbike. One of the men in the car then fired a 12-gauge shotgun at him.
It's not known whether Ungi pulled the trigger, but he's thought to have been one of the pursuers in the car.
Ungi, who is also thought to be connected to a Liverpool drugs ring, was filmed on CCTV boarding a ferry at Dover shortly after the shooting.
Fatah Benlaredj
Child rapist who fled to Spain
Location: Manchester
One of Manchester's most wanted fugitives, Fatah Banlarendj is wanted for the rape of a seven year old girl in 2007.
Benlaredj, 41, has been on the run ever since, and it is thought that he could be hiding among a British ex-pat community in Spain.
Kevin Thomas Parle
Giant suspected of shotgun killings
Location: Liverpool
Identifying features: 6ft 6, scar on left side of head
Suspected killer Kevin Parle is wanted by police over the murder of Liverpool mum Lucy Hargreaves and teenager Liam Kelly.
Hargreaves was killed in her home by a shotgun blast when attackers came for her boyfriend, the intended victim.
Kelly, meanwhile, was shot in the street in 2004 after an argument about a £200 debt. It is thought that Parle - who goes by the nickname "Hemp" was involved in both killings.
Parle, now 37, cuts an intimidating figure: standing at 6ft 6, with a small scar on the left side of his head. He has been on the run since 2005 - and is thought to be hiding on the Costa del Sol.
Britain's Most Wanted Woman
Sarah Panitzke, a mousy fraudster with a Yorkshire accent, is the only woman on the UK most wanted list.
Patinzke was a senior member of a crime group involved in a VAT fraud and is thought to have laundered approximately £1billion.
She vanished before her trial finished in 2013 but was convicted in her absence, receiving a sentence of eight years in prison for her role in the fraud.
Allan Foster
Suspected shooter in car-park murder
Location: South Shields
Dad David "Noddy" Rice was murdered with a semi-automatic handgun as he sat in his car in 2006, in a killing which stunned Tyneside.
Rice was known to have lived a criminal life, but the reason for his car-park execution remains unknown - and the suspected killer, Alan Foster, remains at large.
It has been suggested that the shooting could have been fuelled by a drugs debt or an argument, but only Foster, now in his 40s, knows the truth.
The suspected murderer's location is still unknown, however, although police say he has links to the Canary Islands and Majorca.
