First viewed : 22 July 1987
This was a documentary about two accused war criminals living in Britain with no mechanism to extradite them for trial. Both Antonas Gecas and Kirilo Zvarich were East European not German but accused of enthusiastic collaboration with the Nazis in Second World War atrocities.
The programme eventually led to the War Crimes Act of 1991 to make the process easier. I don't know what happened to Zvarich but Gecas evaded prosecution until he was ruled too ill to stand trial in response to an extradition request from his native Lithuania in 2001. He died shortly afterwards.
Ironically, one of those most loudly calling for him to face justice was the then - Labour MP Greville Janner, who himself escaped prosecution for sex crimes on medical grounds a couple of years ago.
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