Most Wanted

At a meeting held in Alicante on Thursday, a joint Spanish / British police venture called Operation Captura 2, released the following details of criminal suspects on the run here in Spain.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) issued the descriptions and photographs below of the criminals. All are understood to be in the Alicante area of the Costa Blanca, a favourite haunt of criminals, who rely on underworld sources for protection from justice.

Alan McDonald Gordon aged 46, is 6ft 2intall with short-cropped grey receding hair, blue eyes and a pierced left ear. He is on the run from northern area police, accused of drug dealing.

Anthony Kearney aged 43, is 5ft 9in tall and has blue eyes, dark hair and a roundish face. The Strathclyde Police wants him for obtaining benefits from the Department of Work and Pensions fraudulently and setting up false accounts.

Donna McCafferty aged 41, Kearney’s partner, is 5ft 6in tall with reddish auburn hair and greenish blue eyes. She is also wanted by Strathclyde Police for a string of fraud offences between 1999 and 2004.

Thomas Cochran aged 50, is 5ft 11in tall, often wears glasses, has a dagger tattoo on his right arm and is wanted by Strathclyde Police to face drug-dealing charges.

The initiative follows the launch of Operation Captura in October 2006 in the Costa del Sol where descriptions of 30 criminals were released resulting in 13 arrests. British police hope publicity generated by the release to the RTN of the pictures will lead to their arrests.