One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives, a cousin of the footballer Steven Gerrard, has handed himself in after complaining that the pressure of life on the run had become too much. Robert Stephen Gerrard had been on the run for three years after a raid on a Dutch cafe uncovered a suspected international drug trafficking operations centre. He was accused of trying to smuggle £60m worth of cocaine into the UK and was wanted by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). After being on the run since October 2013, this week Gerrard made arrangements through his solicitor to hand himself in to NCA officers at Manchester’s Central Park police station. NCA officers were pursuing him with the help of Dutch police, following up leads on suspected hideouts in the Netherlands and the UK.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2016 07:26 UTC