Fraudsters, rapists and drug traffickers among 24 fugitives being hunted by National Crime Agency

A gallery of Britain’s 24 most wanted men has been released, amid pleas from police chiefs not to approach them.

The National Crime Agency has published mugshots of suspects it is trying to track down in connection with a number of crimes.

The fugitives include fraudsters, rapists and drug traffickers, but the NCA insists anyone who spots them should call 999 and not engage with them directly.

A spokesperson said: ‘We pursue criminals and bring them to justice. By informing communities and supporting other agencies, we can help identify criminals and speed the law enforcement process.’

Here, MailOnline profiles each of the suspects included on the agency’s list.

Alex Male

Believed to be between 25 and 30, Male is alleged to be a regional distributor of drugs across the south west of England.

He is said to buy and sell drugs and manage other distributors who operated under his instruction using the EncroChat encrypted communications network. 

He is accused of conspiracy to supply cocaine and ketamine, money laundering, conspiracy to acquire a firearm. 

Male is around 6ft tall and has a number of distinctive tattoos including a skull on his Adam’s apple and a full sleeve on his left arm with a family tree. 

‘Love’ is tattooed on his left hand along with a swallow and he has three stars tattooed on his left wrist. 

He also has a full tribal sleeve tattoo on his right arm going onto his chest with an angel on his back and ‘live’ tattooed on his right hand.

Derek McGraw Ferguson

Born in Glasgow in 1964, Ferguson is sought in connection with the murder of Thomas Cameron.

The barman was shot dead on June 28, 2007 at the Auchinairn Tavern, Bishopbriggs.

He is between 5ft1 and 5ft3 tall, with green/blue eyes and short balding brown/grey hair.

Ozgur Demir

A Turkish national, Demir is wanted in connection with conspiracy to supply 17.83 kg of diamorphine. 

The NCA says three others have already been convicted in connection with this offence.

Jack Mayle

Mayle is wanted in suspicion of the supply of MDMA, methylphenidate (a pharmaceutical drug) and diazepam, having fled after being charged. 

He allegedly ran a drug line in South London and Surrey called the Flavour Quest. 

Mayle worked with a dark web drug dealer buying and selling drugs between each other for onward sales through their respective drug networks. They sold LSD and various pharmaceutical medication.

Born in Croydon, he is described as being muscular and around 5ft11 in height.

He has a number of tattoos including a diamond under his left eye, one on the outside of his left forearm that reads ‘Croydon’, and art on his left hand that says ‘money never sleeps’, ’12-20′ and a small heart. 

His right hand has an eye design tattoo with hands around it and word ‘Littles’. On both hands he has tattoos on his fingers reading ‘trap star’. 

His neck is tattooed with warriors and religious figures on horses and he has a full back tattoo. 

The NCA says he may have tried to alter his appearance and that he is known to carry weapons; is a regular gym goer and vegan.

Allan Foster

Foster is alleged to have murdered David ‘Noddy’ Rice at the Marsden Bay Car Park, South Shields on May 24, 2006.

He is also wanted for two offences of conspiring to supply controlled drugs and for the theft of a diamond ring.

Described as slim, with short black hair, Foster has links to the Canary Islands and Majorca and is also known to use the alias Shaun Michael Wilkinson.

Ersin Mustafa

Between 2006 to 2008, Mustafa is believed to have been involved in insider dealing with seven other individuals. 

While employed at the London branch of investment bank JP Morgan Cazenove, he allegedly obtained information about future acquisitions and mergers, which were provided to others who then traded using this information. 

Over a two-year period, the group made approximately £2.5 million in criminal profits. 

In July 2008 Mustafa was arrested by the City of London Police and then released on bail. It is believed he fled the UK around December 2009.

He is described as having a stocky build, with dark hair and a Mediterranean ethnic appearance.

Asim Naveed

Aged between 29 and 30 and standing at 6ft2, Naveed allegedly had a leading role in a highly organised crime group. 

Using encrypted comms platform EncroChat, he is accused of acquiring large quantities of cocaine from upstream suppliers and onward distribution through Cardiff and Wales. 

It is estimated he and his OCG brought 46 kilos of cocaine into Wales during the period worth up to £7,885,680.

Described as being of muscular build, Naveed has a surgical scar along his left wrist.

Kevin Thomas Parle

Also known as Hemp, Parle is wanted in connection with the murders in Liverpool of 16yr old Liam Kelly in 2004 and Lucy Hargreaves in 2005.

Liam was shot dead in the street over a £200 debt, while young mother Lucy was killed on her sofa as gangsters hunted her boyfriend. 

Parle is described as being stocky, with short ginger hair and a height of 6ft4.

Christakis Philippou

Between 2004 and 2006, Philippou was involved in conspiracies where he and his co-defendants repeatedly set out to acquire, or sometimes to set up from scratch, travel agency businesses which were used as vehicles for fraud. 

The travel agencies attracted customers by offering holidays at prices so low that legitimate companies could not compete with them. 

In each case, the travel agency ceased to trade, leaving customers without a holiday, ultimately defrauding an estimated 20,000 people.

Described as having dark, receding hair and a Mediterranean ethnic appearance, he is also known to use the alias Christakis Chrysostomou.

Calvin Parris

Aged 31-32, Parris is wanted for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and is alleged to be a customer of Asim Naveed’s OCG, buying cocaine from them and selling it on within Cardiff. 

Parris is said to have used an Encro phone to strike deals with the OCG including once buying seven kilos of cocaine for £89,000.

He is 5ft11 tall and of medium build and has gold upper teeth.

Fatah Benlaredj 

Benlaredj, who also uses the nickname Samir, is wanted for the rape of a seven-year-old girl.

The agency has not published any more information about him.

Timur Mehmet

Mehmet is wanted for his role in a conspiracy to cheat the public revenue by operating a Missing Trader Intra-community (MTIC) fraud, causing a £25m loss to the UK.

He appeared in court in June 2007 and was told that failure to return for his trial in October 2007 could result in him being tried and sentenced in his absence. 

Mehmet failed to attend and was subsequently found guilty, being sentenced to eight years.

He is described as being around 5ft9 tall, of slim build with black hair.

John James Jones

Jones is wanted for wounding with intent, Jones (and a co-accused) allegedly assaulted two people by stabbing them numerous times with a knife causing serious injuries in April 2018. 

It is believed Jones fled the UK in the immediate aftermath. 

There is information to show he stayed at a hotel in Madrid the night after the stabbings but left rapidly the next morning.

Aged 31-32, he is 6ft tall and stocky with dark hair.

Shashi Dhar Sahnan

Sahnan is accused of being involved in the importation of controlled Class A drugs, heroin, into the UK. 

The huge quantity of drugs, which were concealed in packaging surrounding air conditioning units, was seized by HMRC during a joint operation with Leicestershire Police in July 2007. 

Customs officers found the drugs hidden in the struts of pallets upon which the machinery was being transported. 

Born in India, Sahnan has brown eyes and wears an overt hearing aid in his right ear which sits over the ear.

He is stocky, around 5ft7 tall with short grey hair.

Costas Sampson 

On August 25, 2012, Sampson was convicted of raping a girl he met at a nightclub in London in February 2010. 

The girl was taken unwell after accepting a drink from a stranger, and Sampson and a friend offered to take her home. 

Sampson told one of the girl’s friends that he was a medical expert but he later raped the girl at her flat while she was incapacitated.

A Cypriot national known to use the alias Kostas, he was also convicted of stealing her mobile phone, plus her flatmate’s laptop and games console.

He is described as being around 5ft8, of large build, with black cropped hair and a Mediterranean ethnic appearance.

Callum Michael Allan

Allan is wanted on suspicion of a range of offences including: possession with intent to supply Class A (heroin), supply Class A (cocaine), possession of cannabis, assaulting an emergency worker, affray and dangerous driving. 

On June 11, 2019, police raided a house suspected to be used for drugs deals. 

Allan fled and assaulted two officers who restrained him. He was in possession of 113.29 grams of heroin. 

Allan was charged and appeared at court in April 2020 where he was given unconditional bail and failed to return. 

Aged 23-24, he is 5ft10 tall and of slim build, with fine hair, blue eyes and a Tyneside accent.

John Barton

Barton was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 2003 after being convicted in his absence for conspiring to import a commercial amount of heroin into the UK between 1999 and 2000. 

He is believed to have links to Fuengirola in Spain. 

Barton is around 5ft7 tall, of medium build with dyed, receding hair.

Mehmet Salih 

Between December 2010 and November 2011 Salih is accused of being involved in a conspiracy to supply cocaine. 

It is believed he was contacted on a regular basis by an associate for the purposes of buying cocaine, delivering it and collecting payments.

In May 2011 Salih allegedly visited Lincolnshire to deliver a quantity of cocaine that was subsequently recovered by the police.

He was arrested and was in possession of £20,000. Salih was released on bail to appear at a police station later in the year but failed to attend.

Salih is a Cypriot national and has a scar on his right eye.

Mark Francis Roberts

Roberts is wanted for Grievous Bodily Harm and attempted robbery of a man’s £60,000 Richard Mille watch. 

The victim was attacked by two men with a blade at around 1.30am on 30 September 2016 after he parked his car on his home driveway. 

The victim refused to surrender his watch and was so badly injured he suffered life-threatening injuries and was treated in a critical care unit for puncture wounds, a collapsed lung and many lacerations. 

The victim heard one of the attackers say he’d cut himself in the attack, and Roberts’s blood was later identified at the scene.

Aged 28-29, from Liverpool, Roberts is 6ft1 of medium build with a 7.6cm scar down his right leg.

He also potentially has a scar on his arm, sustained during the attempted robbery and is described as having heavy eyebrows and green eyes.

Rezgar Zengana

An Iraqi national, Zengana posed as a private hire taxi driver on December 10, 2006 in Glasgow to pick up a 25-year-old girl.

He then drove her to a private dwelling where he raped his victim. 

He was convicted of the rape but is still to be sentenced for this offence.

Shazad Ghafoor

Ghafoor took a courtesy car from a dealership in Manchester in August 2013 using a driving license in another person’s name. 

Police spotted the car and the pursuit ended in the Halifax area when he crashed. His wife and two children, who were also in the car, suffered minor injuries. 

Cash to the value of £80-100,000 was recovered and there were traces of heroin, cocaine and cannabis on the notes. 

He was charged with fraud, possession of criminal property, dangerous driving and disqualified driving. 

Ghafoor was also charged with possession of cannabis with intent to supply after a vehicle was searched in Withington in November 2013 and cannabis worth £245,000 was found. 

In May 2014 Ghafoor pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. He was due to appear at court in February 2015 in relation to the other charges but failed to answer his bail and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

In addition, Ghafoor was charged with possession of cannabis with intent to supply in relation to a separate seizure of cannabis worth £24,000 that was found at a house on Kingsway Avenue, Burnage, in September 2014. 

He was due to appear in court but failed to answer his bail and another warrant was issued for his arrest.

Ghafoor is described as being 5ft11, of medium build, and having a pock mark on right cheek, a scar on right of the nose, and a scar on the top of his right hand.

Daniel Dugic

Originally from Serbia, Dugic is suspected of being involved in a conspiracy to import 255 kilos of cocaine. 

A number of other individuals were convicted in June 2011. The conspiracy involved a small UK vessel meeting a commercial container ship in the English Channel from which the drugs were transferred. 

Although Dugic was not on board either vessel, he is alleged to have played a major part in organising the importation.

Osman Aydeniz

A Cypriot national, Aydeniz, like Ozgur Demir, is wanted in connection with conspiracy to supply 17.83 kg of diamorphine.

He is also wanted for conspiracy to commit theft and transferring criminal property.

Three others have already been convicted. 

No other information on him has been released by the agency.

Jonathon Kelly

Kelly is wanted by Police Scotland on recall to prison to serve a remaining sentence of 9 years 10 months for a number of serious assaults.

Kelly, who is extremely violent and poses a high risk to both police and members of the public, was convicted at various courts of a number of offences between 2002 and 2010. 

He received sentences in excess of 16 years, and in September 2013 he was released on licence but failed to adhere to conditions set.

The offences he was convicted of included an assault to severe injury and danger of life, robbery, assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement, breach of the peace and having a sharply pointed implement in prison. 

In one of the most serious assaults Kelly stabbed and paralysed his victim using a machete.

He is described as being 5ft10 tall, of heavy build, with blue/grey eyes, short brown hair, a Scottish accent, and occasionally has a beard. 

Kelly also has scars to the left and right side of the face, on his arms and his right hand.