Arrested in Malaga another of the British included in the list of the most wanted

David Ungi, in an image released by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).

Shorts, a sports shirt and a backpack with a firearm and ammunition: the British David Ungi, 30, was arrested last Thursday night in Coín (Málaga, 22,147 inhabitants) when he entered a gym in a shopping center of the locality.

The individual was accompanied by three compatriots when he was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Vinny Waddington, an 18-year-old from Liverpool who died after being shot several times.

Ungi is the second fugitive located in Malaga since the end of January when the UK police launched an alert with the ten most wanted subjects.

This week, in addition, two other people on that list were arrested in Portugal.

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Ungi, who is also linked to heroin trafficking in the Liverpool metropolitan area, is considered "a very dangerous person", according to Steve Reynolds, head of the British National Crime Agency in Spain.

Police had been looking for him since Waddington's shooting death on July 14, 2015, when he was riding his motorcycle in the Banks Road area of ​​south Liverpool.

He was shot several times from an Audi A3 which later rammed the motorcycle.

The British police arrested two people for the events, and both were sentenced a year later to 24 and 25 years in prison.

However, the agents did not find the person they consider to be the third person responsible for the death of the 18-year-old, who was driving the Audi and to whom they attribute the authorship of the shots.

But they only knew about him that he had the facial features of a child and that he had left the UK on a ferry less than 24 hours after the murder.

Nothing more.

Seven years later, it has been located in Coín, in the Guadalhorce valley, north of the capital of Malaga.

This area, together with municipalities on the Costa del Sol such as Mijas, Fuengirola, Marbella or Estepona, are regular hiding places for British fugitives.

They find in the place a large English colony in which to go unnoticed, and numerous housing estates and scattered houses in which to lead an anonymous life.

That is the life that Ungi led since he left British soil until this Thursday he was arrested.

On Sunday he went to court and appeared before the Malaga court, which issued preventive detention while the extradition procedure is activated.

"The Merseyside Police remain relentless in their pursuit of criminals and will leave no stone unturned," Cath Cummings said in a statement.

chief inspector of this security body.

The head of the NCA, Steve Reynolds, has highlighted the importance of the collaboration of the police from different countries.

"Your arrest of him is very good news for both the Spanish and the British," he added.

Ungi was on the UK's most wanted list.

Last January, the British and Spanish governments launched a joint campaign to capture a dozen fugitives.

Then the Costa del Sol was pointed out as one of the areas where most criminals could hide.

That's how it went.

Just the day after the campaign was launched, an off-duty police officer recognized one of the members of the list, Joshua Hendry, and alerted several of his colleagues.

Wanted for drug trafficking, agents arrested him while he was walking his dog in San Pedro Alcántara, west of Marbella.

He was also accused of dealing cocaine and heroin in Liverpool.

In the last week, in addition, two other people included in the NCA lists have been arrested in Portugal,