Dutch SWAT team arrest blindfolded guns and grenade gangster Kirk Bradley in Amsterdam MERSEYSIDE’S most wanted man Kirk Bradley was today in a high-security Dutch prison after being arrested in a luxury flat on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Kirk Bradley, 26, was sitting in his shorts and flip-flops watching TV and smoking a joint in the 2,500 euro-a-month penthouse apartment in Bijlmer when an armed SWAT team burst through the front door late on Wednesday. At around 11.30pm Dutch time (one hour ahead of GMT), the team closed in on Bradley, originally from Huyton, after nine months on the run being tracked by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and police in Merseyside and the Netherlands. Soca’s top man in Europe today said: “He had no idea we were on to him.” Bradley was handcuffed and blindfolded, while officers searched the flat. They found a large knife next to his bed, a 15,000 euro watch and 1,000 euros in cash. One source said: “He even told the officers how shocked he was. He couldn’t believe we’d found him. He didn’t expect to get caught.” Yesterday, he appeared in court in Amsterdam before being sent off to a high-security prison where his extradition hearing will take place. Bradley is facing life in prison when he is brought back to the UK. He and “partner-in-crime” Tony Downes, also 26 and from Huyton, were sprung from a prison van as they were being driven to court last July. The pair were on trial with four others accused of running a campaign of gun and grenade attacks across Merseyside against underworld rivals.
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