Runaway killer Brit once worked as bodyguard for the Saudi royal family
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Killer Justin Clarke was a minder for the Saudi royal family during his 23 years on the run, police revealed as he began a 25-year jail term .
Clarke, 62, also fought as a mercenary in the Yugoslav war, joining the Bosnia Herzegovina army soon after he had fled Britain to escape justice for killing Paul Milburn, 43, in a drugs sting in 1993.
Clarke served from 1994 to 1996, and in 2007 was awarded Croatian citizenship, with army veteran status that entitled him to a pension.
It is believed he had a girlfriend in Croatia and lived in the capital Zagreb. But he moved around, with living for spells in Split and Makarska.
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The former bouncer, who was jailed for life on Wednesday after being convicted of murder , was hired as a security expert for an international engineering firm, working for them in Qatar.
His colleagues there were interviewed in 2007 by British police, who went to Qatar after getting a tip-off that Clarke had worked there. But he fled before they learned of his whereabouts. It is thought he also spent time in Dubai.
DI Justine Jenkins revealed that when Clarke was finally arrested in 2016 in Berlin, he had a fake British driving licence and a Dutch ID card in the name of Michael Anderson.
Detectives said that straight after the murder, Clarke fled to Paris. DI Jenkins said: “We know he was there at some stage early on after the murder.”
He also spent some time in the French Foreign Legion.