The prolific one-legged Essex crime boss that police still can't find
CCTV has been released of his last known location
Tommy WathenEngagement Producer
An Essex man who disappeared before being convicted of trying to import £8 million worth of liquid amphetamine into the country remains on the run a year later.
Richard Wakeling, 52 from Brentwood, was sentenced in his absence to 11 years behind bars at Chelmsford Crown Court on April 9 last year after he fled just before a 12 week trial began.
Over a year later, the National Crime Agency have now released CCTV footage showing his last known movements.
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On Friday, January 5, he left his home in Juniper Court in Beech Avenue at 9.48am and drove off in his white Audi Q3 - which has the registration plate EF66 ZWR.
Later that day, his car was in the Iver area before he then caught a bus from Heathrow to Glasgow. The following day, he took a ferry from Stranraer to Belfast.
52-year-old Richard Wakeling from Brentwood (Image: National Crime Agency)
A week later, on Saturday January 13, his car was then driven back to his home address.
Wakeling, who has been identified as having a prosthetic leg and needing regular treatment, has family and friends in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Thailand.
NCA Operations Manager Paul Green said: "Wakeling has been on the run for well over a year now and knows we are still looking for him.
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"He should also know we will do everything in our power to bring him back to serve his sentence.
"I would urge him to hand himself in. I've no doubt someone seeing this appeal will have information about his whereabouts.
"Anyone helping Wakeling or actively frustrating our efforts to find him could be arrested for assisting an offender."
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If you have information on his whereabouts, you should contact the NCA Control Centre on 0370 496 7622.
Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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