Australian police on Wednesday said they had apprehended a British suspected drug offender, who tried to flee to Papua New Guinea on a jet ski. Border police said they received a tip-off that “a man, possibly armed with a crossbow and carrying additional fuel and supplies, had been seen launching the jet ski” from a peninsula in the far northeast of the country. The suspect — “a 57-year-old UK national who was subject to an outstanding warrant for drug-related charges in Western Australia” — was caught on mudflats off an island just kilometres (miles) from the Papua New Guinea mainland.
Brit fugitive tries to flee Australia on jet ski
Published on: March 28, 2019 2:36 AM