This is the luxury Spanish bolthole where Stephen Lawrence murder suspect Jamie Acourt hid from British drugs cops for more than two years.
Acourt – one of five men arrested for the racist stabbing of Stephen in 1993 – lived the high life as police hunted him over a £3million cannabis plot.
Today the Sunday People can reveal the £2,550-a-month pad in Barcelona’s swanky Diagonal Mar district.
Yards from a beach, it is in a complex with a pool, gym and tennis courts.
Acourt, 43, used a fake passport to pose as an Italian named Simon Alfonzo to rent it from a British expat.
He shared it with fellow fugitive drug smuggler Michael Lloyd, 31. They spent days in the gym and nights partying at their flat.
A neighbour said: “Pretty girls would often turn up in taxis and leave after a few hours. I’d see the men coming back from shopping trips with bags of expensive clothes.
“When they were arrested the apartment was full of designer stuff. There were also protein powders and steroids and even a safe which they bought after they moved in. All that was left in it were a few coins.”
Another neighbour said: “The owner was mortified when he found out who he had been renting to. He had no idea.”
The owner of the £720,000 flat, whose name is not being revealed, said: “I had to completely refurbish the apartment because the place had been trashed. It was a filthy mess and they left loads of rubbish.”
Acourt had fled the UK in 2016 after cops nailed a gang that moved cannabis from London to the North. He went to Marbella, then Barcelona.
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