2:00pm Monday 1st June 2009
By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter
One of Europe's most wanted men is thought to be on the run in Sussex.
Suspected rapist and murderer Bogumil Kaczmarkczyk has been living in the county, according to a crime fighting charity.
The 29-year-old Polish national is one of 17 foreign serious crime suspects on the loose in Britain.
He has been named in a list of 100 international fugitives wanted by police forces across the world.
Kaczmarkczyk went on the run in October 2004 after being accused of assaulting a man, who later died of his injuries, in the Polish city of Lublin.
He was also suspected of being one of three men who carried out a violent rape, again in Lublin, a month later.
After the crime he is believed to have threatened the victim's family with revenge if they reported it to the police.
Kaczmarkczyk is known to have the aliases Marcin Zaweja and Marcin Zawieja.
He is about 5ft 9in, of medium build, with blue eyes and short, straight hair.
He has tattoos on his left and right arms and on the right side of his chest and back.
Police in Poland have issued repeated appeals for information to snare Kaczmarkczyk, who may have fled his home country in 2005.
No information on how he bypassed Britain's border controls has been released.
The list of wanted suspects was being published today by crime fighting charity Crimestoppers.
Des Turner, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, said: "We have border controls and in theory this shouldn't happen but in practice people get past any system.
"Hopefully publication of this list will lead to the apprehension of some of them."
The UK names are being investigated by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and Interpol.
David Armond, SOCA's deputy director, said: "SOCA is committed to bringing UK fugitives back to face justice at home and helping our partners in other countries do the same."
Since the expansion of the EU in 2004 people from Eastern European countries have been free to travel to Britain to work.
The extent of criminality among migrants in the county is unknown because until April Sussex Police did not routinely keep records of the nationalities of offenders.
Police have refused requests for details of arrests made in Sussex under European Arrest Warrants.
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