A suspected killer and one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been placed on a worldwide most wanted list after more than two years on the run. Shane O’Brien, 30, is alleged to have killed 21-year-old Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack in a bar in Hillingdon, west London, in 2015.

He has now been placed on Interpol’s worldwide most wanted list and there is a £50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and prosecution. O’Brien left the UK on a privately chartered flight from Biggin Hill airport in the wake of the death of Hanson at the RE bar in Eastcote. Hanson was stabbed in the neck in the early hours of 11 October 2015 and died from his injuries at the scene.

O’Brien, originally from Ladbroke Grove, is described as white, 6ft, with grey eyes, dark brown hair, a full beard and a tattoo on his back of an owl holding a skull, covering up a previous one of “Shannon 15-04-06”. Since fleeing the UK, he is thought to have lived in the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates before returning to Europe.

It emerged that he was arrested in Prague in early 2017 on suspicion of criminal damage and assault before he was released on bail. He had dramatically changed his appearance and gave his name as Enzo Mellonceli, one of the Italian aliases he has been using. Police say he has been travelling “extensively” and there were reported sightings in Gibraltar, Nice in France and Prague following an appeal for information in October last year.(theguardian)…[+]