Ungi, who is also wanted in connection with heroin trafficking, left Britain less than 24 hours after Waddington was killed, according to British authorities.

Two other men were convicted in 2016 of the 18-year-old’s murder.

Spanish police said in a statement Ungi was arrested along with three other British men in the town of Coin near the southern resort of Marbella on May 5 as they entered a gym at a shopping centre.

🚩Intervenidas varias armas de fuego y 15 kg de #cocaína durante la detención de uno de los fugitivos británicos más buscados

Considerado responsable del #asesinato de un joven en 2015 en #Liverpool, fue detenido cuando se inscribía en un gimnasio #Coín (#Málaga) pic.twitter.com/ScL9Ix3bFh

— Policía Nacional (@policia) May 11, 2022

Officers seized a firearm from a rucksack being carried by one of the men, Spain’s National Police said in a statement.

A police search of Ungi’s residence in Coin turned up a machinegun and two other guns as well as “abundant ammunition”, 15 kilos (33 pounds) of cocaine and 19 kilos of hashish, the statement added.

Spanish police said the operation was carried out in cooperation with Britain’s National Crime Agency, which had put Ungi on its most wanted list.

The Spanish coast has long a popular bolthole for British criminals fleeing the law because they can blend easily into thriving expatriate communities.