The number one target for Interpol was asleep in bed when Dutch police stormed his hideaway armed with stun grenades and automatic weapons. The crack police unit had spent months watching him before they swooped.
It was the culmination of a secret operation codenamed Crayfish and billed as one of the defining police investigations of the 1990s. Crayfish was led by the north west regional crime squad and based in a secret location off the M62 motorway, known to police on the unit as 'Fraggle Rock'.
Initially, it was launched to target the powerful drugs gangs which had emerged in Liverpool and Manchester, but Toxteth man Curtis Warren soon became its 'target number one', reports the Liverpool Echo.
