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Summary:Documentary looking at how Spain's Costa del Sol became the "Costa del Crime" in the early 1980's as many of Britain's 'most-wanted criminals' fled there to escape conviction in Britain. Programme looks at how these ex-pat felons quickly muscled in on the poorly organised drug routes that ran from Morocco through Spain and finally into Britain.
Description:In the 1970s London's criminal underworld colonised a stretch of extradition-free Spain,turning the Costa del Sol into the Costa del Crime. This is the story of the Costa and its most famous residents,revealing the crimes that took them there.