'I sold my house to man on FBI's most wanted list'

A man who sold his rural home to someone who turned out to be on the FBI's most wanted list has said it was the ideal location "if you wanted to keep your head down".

Aled Evans said Daniel Andreas San Diego paid £425,000 for the house near Llanrwst, Conwy, in August 2023 using the name Danny Webb.

On Monday, Mr San Diego - who had a $250,000 bounty on his head - was arrested in rural Maenan after 21 years on the run following two explosions in San Francisco in 2003 he was suspected of being behind.

"He was quite excited because there was a big woodland at the back he was into his mountain biking and that's what sold it to him, apparently," said Mr Evans.

The FBI has accused Mr San Diego of being "an animal rights extremist" involved in a series of bombings in San Francisco.

The first bombing was in August 2003 with two explosions an hour apart on the campus of a biotechnology company, followed by a nail bomb at a nutritional products company a month later.

He became the first "domestic terrorist" to be added to the agency's most wanted terrorist list, created by then-President George W Bush in October 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Mr San Diego appeared on the list alongside Osama Bin Laden, who is believed to have ordered the 9/11 attacks, and was killed by US forces in Pakistan in 2011.

Michael J Heimbach, the FBI’s assistant director of the counterterrorism division, said the suspect had committed "domestic acts of terror planned out and possibly intended to take lives".

According to reports, the agency’s last sighting of him was in 2003 when FBI agents were close in downtown San Francisco.

"He parked his car, got out of his vehicle and started walking down the street and, if I'm not mistaken, he went into a Bart station and that was the last time we've seen him," FBI agent David Johnson said in 2013.