Armed cops ripped me from my bed at night in front of my wife and kids – they thought I was killer with same name

A TOURIST was nicked in his hotel after cops mistook him for a killer of the same name.

Armed officers dragged Dean Evans from his bed unaware his namesake was serving life for murder.

The 34-year-old was bundled into a van at midnight in front of his wife and kids in Tenerife.

He claims he was strip-searched, beaten and put in cells for ten hours before police twigged he was not ex-fugitive Irish hood Dean Evans, 31.

The gangster, who also shares the same birthday as warehouse worker Dean, had been extradited from Spain in 2018.

Dean, of Margate, Kent, said: “It was a terrifying experience. I was frightened for my life.

“I said they’d got the wrong man but they wouldn’t listen. The police kept saying I was a very dangerous man and I’d never see my children again.”

Wife Georgina, 33, with whom Dean has kids Crystal, 14, and Cody, nine, said: “The police didn’t do their research at all. They scared Dean to death.”

A Spanish National Police source said Dean was released after his fingerprints were checked — and this had been impossible in the early hours.