A man in the UK who was hiding in Malta while on the list of the most wanted in Europe, was found guilty of torture and murder
A British television researcher who was arrested in Malta after escaping for 16 years has been found guilty of killing a man on a cannabis farm.
Christopher Guest More, 43, was wanted for torturing and killing Brian Waters in Tabley Cheshire in 2003. He was living under a false name in Malta, where he was arrested in a joint operation between the Maltese and British police in 2019.
Three other men – John Wilson, James Raven and Otis Matthews – are all serving a life sentence for the same murder.
Waters was killed on the farm in front of his daughter and son on June 19, 2003.
He was found guilty of murder as well as conspiracy to inflict serious injuries on another man who was working on the farm and who was also tortured.
More had challenged the validity of the European Arrest Warrant, which led to his extradition back to the United Kingdom, to the Maltese courts but he was eventually returned home to stand trial.
More is believed to have owed more than £ 20,000 in cannabis to his victim.
After the murder More is understood to have traveled to Spain and later to South Africa, Mozambique and Turkey before finally settling in Malta where he went by the name of Andrew Lamb.
He was working as a yacht captain when he was arrested.
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