F1 fan once mistaken for Italian mafia boss breathes sigh of relief as Matteo Messina Denaro is captured!

Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive from Sicily who has been wanted for 30 years, has finally been captured bring🅠ing an endꦍ to a major worldwide man-hunt which bizarrely touched the F1 community two years ago.
A 54-year-old British 💟man from Live💞rpool was grabbed by police in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2021 because they incorrectly thought he was Denaro.
Mark 🌞L, as the innocent ma💖n is known, had a hood pulled over his face by the police as he ate at a restaurant with his son and a friend.
Theꦚ Dutch police believed that the fugitive mafia boss was in theiꦑr country - but they were wrong.
Mark L was only in the Nethe🌜rlands because he attended the F1 Dutch Grand Prix.
His lawyer at the time said: "I was alwa﷽ys convinced he was not [the mafia boss]. It would have been a genius of an Italian to have such 🎃a strong Liverpool accent.
"You can imagin🐼e. He had anger and disbelief and laughter because it is luജdicrous. He is a normal Formula One fan."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ame⛦rican sports, to football, to F1.