As the FBI chased leads on two continents, mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger spent nearly all of his 16 years as a fugitive in a quiet California seaside city, passing himself off as just another OAP, albeit one who kept a .357 Magnum and more than 100 rounds of ammunition in his modest apartment.

DETECTIVES in Britain launched a public appeal yesterday for help in catching one of the FBI’s most wanted men.

A FORMER FBI agent who tipped off two mobsters that they were about to be indicted has been jailed for more than 10 years in a case that exposed an overly cosy relationship between the bureau and its underworld informants.