Allan Foster has been included in a police hit list of the most wanted criminals hiding on Spain's Costa del Sol.
The 33-year-old from South Shields has been on the run since the gangland murder of father-of-seven David 'Noddy' Rice in May 2006.
Now detectives have released the photographs of 10 suspected criminals, including Foster, hiding in the holiday hotspot dubbed 'Costa del Crime'.
They hope the operation, codenamed Captura, a joint initiative between the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Spanish police authority, will lead to Foster's arrest.
His details have been posted on Crimestoppers' Most Wanted website targeting the region, alongside nine other men wanted for murder, serious violent offences, robbery and for their roles in multi-million pound drug trafficking rings.
Last year, the Gazette revealed how Foster, named by detectives as the man behind the killing of Mr Rice, 42, at Marsden Lea car park, was No 1 on the Crimestoppers' Most Wanted website in the UK and in Spain.