Frenchman Jean-Claude Lacote, wanted since 1996 for murdering a British businessman has been caught in Abidjan, after 23-years on the run.
He even reportedly hosted a reality TV crime programme and staged an prison break. Lacote, 53, and his wife Hilde Van Acker, 56, were each sentenced to life in their absence for the killing of businessman Marcus Mitchell who was shot twice in the head in Belgium in 1996.
The pair, listed on Europol’s most wanted list, fled Belgium in the aftermath of the murder only to resurface two decades later in Ivory Coast.
“The two were arrested in Abidjan. Lacote on Wednesday night and Mrs Van Acker on Thursday morning,” Brussels prosecutors spokesman Celine D’Have told AFP.Belgian prosecutors will ask for the couple to be extradited from the Ivory Coast. They fled Europe, initially for Brazil, Lacote ended up in South Africa where he launched a TV career, hosting ten episodes of a reality crime programme Duty Calls, according to a 2016 report in Britain’s Independent daily.
The programme showcased how the police “dealt with violent criminals and dangerous crime scenes”. He was in prison awaiting trial on a string of frauds, he also escaped when his then girlfriend Van Acker posed along with others as police officers with fake paperwork, the report added.
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