This is the dramatic moment a Lanarkshire fugitive wanted over rape allegations is arrested by plain-clothed detectives as he works out on a beach in Spain.
Police video footage shows one officer running up to Clacher as a female police officer approached him from behind. Spain’s Civil Guard released the first footage of the high-profile arrest today as they revealed Clacher’s keep-fit obsession proved his downfall and led to his detention in the Costa del Sol tourist resort of Nerja east of Malaga.
A spokesman for the police force said today in its first comments on the operation to snare Clacher, appropriately named Operation Clacher: “The operation began when Britain’s National Crime Agency received an anonymous tip-off saying he could be living in Nerja and immediately made contact with the Civil Guard’s UCO unit.