A fugitive convicted of killing and raping a British kayaker has been seized by police in Brazil as he took his daughter to the doctor’s.

Arthur Gomes da Silva was arrested as he went with his daughter to a children’s hospital in Manaus on 8th February.

Staff had alerted police after recognising him as the wanted man.

When police arrived at the hospital, they identified him as one of the group that killed London woman Emma Kelty.

Emma, 43, disappeared while kayaking up the Amazon River in September 2017.

Investigators say she was attacked by a group of six river pirates while she was camped on a beach in a remote area of Coari.

She was robbed, raped, and shot dead, and her body was thrown into the Solimoes River.

It has never been found.

In July last year, Da Silva was sentenced to 29 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the killing.

A court had convicted him of corruption of minors, robbery-homicide, rape, and concealment of a corpse.

The other suspects were identified as Jardel Pinheiro Gomes, Erinei Ferreira da Silva, Elionai Cordovil da Silva, Erinilson Ferreira da Silva, and Valtemir Andrade de Lima.

But Da Silva is the one who raped and killed Emma, say police.

It is not clear when exactly he went on the run.

Emma was 42 days into a 4,000-mile-long trip along the Amazon River from its source to the Atlantic Ocean when she went missing.

Her siblings – Piers, Giles, and Natasha – said in a statement at the time: “Emma was an active and determined sister who challenged herself, latterly through her adventures on the Pacific Coast Trail, as well as in the South Pole and Amazon River.

“In a world that is today a much smaller place, the explorer in our sister found herself seeking ways to prove that challenges were achievable.”