Glasgow<\/a>-born Ferguson is described as white, 5ft 3ins, stocky and balding, although he may have changed his appearance.<\/p>\n![\"police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_derek-ferguson-images.png\")
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Police released this E-FIT of McGraw in 2022(Image: Police Scotland)<\/p>\n
The latest appeal is part of Operation Captura, which launched 20 years ago. Since then, there have been 11 public appeals naming the most wanted criminals thought to be in Spain and 98 of 111 offenders and suspects have been caught. NCA deputy director of international Rick Jones said Spain is an ideal base for fugitives as it allows them to integrate with English-speaking communities while being “outside the UK to avoid our attention”.<\/p>\n
He said: “They will generally integrate themselves into these communities, which are populated by many, many thousands of British people who are perhaps enjoying their retirement or running businesses there. Criminals will do what they do here, which is integrate themselves and hide among society, and then abuse that trust of those communities and offend against them, or indeed these days it\u2019s very easy to offend against victims or vulnerable people in other countries from anywhere in the world. That\u2019s why we are so determined to leave no stone unturned and no safe place for them to do that and offend against the Spanish communities and our own back here.”<\/p>\n
Fugitives often use fake passports in different names, and in extreme cases have surgery to alter their appearance to try to avoid detection during their new life in the sun. Mr Jones added: “These are serious criminals and there\u2019s nothing glamorous for the victims who\u2019ve been hurt by these individuals, whether that\u2019s people who have unfortunately got themselves addicted to drugs and will be harmed in a great, great many ways by that, or people being subject to frauds and perhaps lost a huge amount of money, maybe their life savings, from some of the individuals here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve chosen to operate outside the law and they\u2019ve chosen to leave this country and abuse the hospitality of a close neighbour of ours. (Suspects) shouldn\u2019t feel that they are safe there. But the reason some of them choose Spain is that there are these large communities there, English-speaking, and they feel that they can hide better amongst that fraternity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to be outside the UK to avoid our attention and they will look for places where they can integrate themselves, and a British expatriate community is ideal for that for them.” Other names being released include Alexsandr Vladimirovich Kuksov, also known as Alexander Kuksov, 23, last known to be living in Tenerife, who is accused of being part of a gang that laundered millions in UK drug dealers\u2019 money by turning it into cryptocurrency, provided the same service in reverse for cyber criminals, and helped Russian oligarchs avoid sanctions by buying property in the UK.<\/p>\n
Kevin Thomas Parle, 45, is wanted by Merseyside Police for two murders \u2013 those of Liam Kelly in Liverpool in 2004 and Lucy Hargreaves in Walton in 2005. He has links to Malaga and Costa Blanca. Anyone with information can call Crimestoppers anonymously in the UK on 0800 555 111, and in Spain 900 926 111, which will be answered by Crimestoppers in the UK using translation if required.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, members of the public can fill out an anonymous online form at the UK charity\u2019s website https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek McGraw Ferguson is wanted in connection with the execution of Thomas Cameron in 2007 with detectives believing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[102,12424,2270,12423,2779,12425,17,970],"class_list":{"0":"post-23424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-east-dunbartonshire","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-pubs","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-true-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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