THE FACE of a former Bradford man, on the run from a 14-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault, is being plastered across a big screen in Spain.

The National Crime Agency, and crimefighting charity Crimestoppers, is using the high profile tactic to try to track down 18 of Britain's most wanted fugitives.

Their faces are being shown on a 13ft-high digital screen at British ex-pat hotspots in Spain.

The fugitives are wanted in the UK for crimes including, murder, rape, child abuse and drug trafficking. They are thought to be hiding in British communities in places such as Benidorm, Malaga and Puerto Banus.

They include Mohammed Jahangir Alam, 32, who lived in Bradford after arriving in the UK from Bangladesh on a temporary visa in 2007. He moved to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire the following year where he physically and sexually abused a victim. He was convicted and sentenced in his absence in March 2010.

Alam is 5ft 8ins tall. His last known address was in East London.

Anyone with information should contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.