Senior Sudanese officials have admitted that they tried in vain to find another country that would accept Mr. Sanchez so he could escape extradition.

When the Russian government withdrew support for him, he took refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow to escape extradition to Germany.

The provision, which went into effect in 1986, removed the right of British citizens to escape extradition if they were charged with political crimes.

Clifford Irving has expressed doubts about de Hory's death, claiming that he may have faked his own suicide in order to escape extradition, but Forgy has dismissed this theory.

Indicted by a Chicago grand jury, Insull fled to Greece, where he hoped to escape extradition.

Both sides are happy: Pinochet's supporters now expect him to escape extradition, while human rights activists hail the ruling as a sign that dictators who have committed more recent crimes can be extradited.

Christopher Skase fled Australia in 1990 in order to escape extradition.

After that he was arrested by Allied Forces, but he escaped extradition to Communist Yugoslavia and went to Buenos Aires in Argentina, where he died on 3 May 1964.

It has been rumoured that Morsello and Fiore escaped extradition by collaborating with the MI6.

Ironically, Smith escaped extradition, albeit narrowly, by virtue of the powerful Nauvoo charter, of which Bennett was a principal author in 1841.