Albanian fugitive on the run accused of murder hid in Britain disguised as a refugee for 27 years

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Albanian fugitive on the run accused of murder hid in Britain disguised as a refugee for 27 years.

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An Albanian man who allegedly gunned down a victim in a café nearly three decades ago has been hiding in Britain , disguised as a refugee.Sabri Sopoti is accused of carrying out the fatal shooting in Albania in 1999, using a Scorpion sub-machine gun before disappearing from the country and making his way to the UK under an assumed identity.According to prosecutors, he gained asylum by posing as a Kosovo war refugee called Zenel Bytyqi, a false persona he maintained for 27 years while living undetected in Britain.Albanian authorities convicted him in his absence and sentenced him to 24 years in prison.Prosecutors allege that the killing was triggered by a telephone call in which Sopoti was urged to "sort out that garbage playing with you and your family".His wife subsequently informed investigators that he became noticeably distressed following the conversation and departed their home armed with both a Scorpion sub-machine gun and a pistol.He then made his way to a café where he...

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