To locals in the sleepy town of Nerja on the Costa del Sol, Johnny Wilson was a familiar face – a Scottish bodybuilder expat who ran beach yoga classes and was often seen working out in the local gym.
But what fellow expats and even a Spanish woman in a relationship with him did not know is that Wilson wasn't who he said he was: he was, in fact, a wanted rapist on the run from the law.
When officers from Spain's elite Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard swooped on him as he hung upside down from gym equipment on the beach, they were shocked to learn they had been sold a lie.
Johnny Wilson – also known to some in Nerja, an hour from Malaga, as Jimmy – was in fact James Clacher, 57, wanted back home for the violent rapes of two women.
He had met his targets on Tinder and Bumble – after shaving 10 years off of his age – who this week was convicted of two violent assaults on women he met on dating apps in 2019 and 2020.
