The Fox Hunter ; How I See It: Armed with a Staggering Array of Hi-Tech Weaponry, He's an Urban Assassin Who Charges Pounds 400 a Hit and Quietly Dispatches Up to 28 Victims a Night. And He Could Be in a Garden Near You ...

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NOTHING is going to escape the assassin peering through this huge telescopic sight. It is the dead of a freezing moonless night and yet the infrared lens shows up every leaf and stone in the killing zone.

'Very special, this. It's got a Russian chassis, a Dutch tube and a French lens. Great bit of kit,' murmurs the hitman proudly. The sight is attached to the top of a hefty American Ruger rifle which is also sporting a silencer. We don't want to scare the public, after all.

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The Fox Hunter ; How I See It: Armed with a Staggering Array of Hi-Tech Weaponry, He's an Urban Assassin Who Charges Pounds 400 a Hit and Quietly Dispatches Up to 28 Victims a Night. And He Could Be in a Garden Near You ...

It's not the only serious piece of kit in this sniper's den. Alongside the rifle sits a 410 shotgun, its barrel encased in a huge tube which also acts as a silencer. 'We use this if the target gets too close or if it's moving,' whispers the hitman as he takes me through his extensive arsenal.

His suitcase also contains two astonishingly powerful military- standard infrared nightsights worth Pounds 2,500 each. On top of that, he is carrying a thermal imaging scanner which can spot a human in a hedge half a mile away.

Two infrared sensors are already planted in the killing zone and flash up the slight...

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