Sarah Panitzke (born 3 March 1974) is a British criminal and fraudster who, until 2022, was widely described as "the UK's most wanted woman".
[4][5] A former private school girl at St Peter's School, York and from an already-wealthy family, she fled Britain in 2013 while on trial for a £1 billion tax scam, and was for several years the only woman on the National Crime Agency’s list of most-wanted fugitives.
[4][5] In January 2022, she was tracked down to Santa Barbara in Tarragona, Spain, where it was said she had been living a "life of luxury" under a false identity.
[4] After being extradited back to Britain she began her eight-year sentence and was told she would not be able to apply for parole for four years (half her sentence), and faced a further nine years of imprisonment for not paying back a £2.4 million confiscation order made in 2016.
[4] In March 2023, she was further found guilty of this and sentenced to an additional nine years' imprisonment, meaning she will not be eligible for parole until late 2027.