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Drug dealer Warren ‘Lucky’ Wilson spent his last days ‘waging war’ against the family who ultimately ordered his hit, the Old Bailey heard today.

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Mr Wilson, 32, smashed windows at houses belonging to the Crearer brothers and poured acid over a jeep belonging to one of their girlfriends.

The police informant also tipped detectives off about drugs they would find at properties belonging to the family.

Just weeks before his death Mr Wilson had also been bailed for smashing a bottle into a reveller’s face at the Italian Club in Bedford.

The trial has heard how the Crearers allegedly recruited Trevor Clouden to carry out the hit on August 17, 1997.

Clouden, 37, wrapped a towel round a Smith and Wesson and pumped the bullets into Mr Wilson in a crowded street in Bedford, it is alleged.

Oliver Sells, QC, prosecuting, said after executing Mr Wilson as he sat in his car, Clouden then went to ground before flying out to a Caribbean island.

In August 1999, more than two years after the killing, Clouden was finally arrested by detectives in New York and then extradited back to the UK to stand trial.

Giving evidence today (mon) Deputy US Marshal Robert Cangelosi told the jury of the dramatic apprehension of Clouden.

With seven colleagues they stormed an apartment in Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn, and ordered Clouden to lie face down on the floor at gunpoint.

But Clouden, who was not armed, did not put up a struggle.

He also waived his right to challenge extradition.

Clouden, of Hartwell Drive, Kempston, Bedford, denies murdering Mr Wilson.

Giving evidence today (mon) Bedford-based cop Det Con Graham Bond told how he first spoke to Mr Wilson while he was in custody in July 1997.

During the next few weeks he said Mr Wilson would regularly contact him on his pager.

During a meeting at Biddenham, a small village just outside Bedford, Mr Wilson seemed nervous, the officer recalled.

Mr Wilson told the detective he would find drugs at two addresses linked to the Crearers – at (1) Queen Alexandra Road and (75) the Boundary.

‘He explained where the drugs would be found,’ said DC Bond.

‘He also said that the drugs were going to be moved when the occupants got up and left so we needed to be fairly quick.

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DC Bond said he was on sick leave at the time so it was left for colleagues to execute search warrants at the houses.

The court was then told how Mr Simpson had been arrested on July 11 in connection with a break-in at Leroy Crearer’s home in Queen Alexandra Road.

Mr Simpson was also suspected of breaking windows at the same house and at the address in Boundary Road which belonged to Leroy Crearer’s girlfriend.

Just four days earlier Mr Simpson had been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm after he hit a man in the face with a beer bottle at the Italian Club.

The jury was told that Mr Simpson was also suspected of pouring corrosive substance over a Suzuki Vitara in Boundary Road.

Courtney Griffiths, QC, for Clouden, suggested to DC Bond: ‘It is quite clear Mr Wilson was waging a war on the Crearers.

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But the officer replied: ‘I am not in possession of the facts to allow me to make that assumption.

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The trial continues.

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