Australia's most wanted man, Graham Potter, was hiding out in a squalid house

Australia's most wanted fugitive was living in a rubbish-strewn house full of animal cages and junk when police finally tracked him down.

Graham Potter, 64, was arrested on Monday after spending more than a decade on the run.

He had allegedly skipped bail on charges in Melbourne for conspiracy to murder in 2010 and is accused of evading authorities by constantly changing his appearance.

Body-cam vision released by Queensland Police of the raid to capture Potter revealed the shocking condition of the house in which he hid out at Ascham St, Ravenshoe, 120km south-west of Cairns in far north Queensland.

He was found in a squalid room filled with empty cardboard boxes, a chicken coop and old bed.

Potter was hiding behind a bunk bed topped with multiple old mattresses. There were large cobwebs on the walls.

'This is the police. Do not move. Put your hands where I can see them,' a police officer yells at him.

'Yeah, yeah,' Potter nonchalantly responds.

As he is led from the house in handcuffs, piles of newspapers and magazines are seen stacked on a staircase.

Old furniture, fridges and other junk are strewn randomly through the house.

Empty beer bottles can be seen lined up in the front windows of the house, with the curtains tightly drawn.

Police said Potter denied his identity when located, while the home's owner said Potter was known to her as 'Ned'.

The owner, Sandi Feller, told The Australian she would not comment about Potter's discovery at the house under she'd spoken to a solicitor.

'They didn't arrest me. They haven’t charged me, but that might come yet too, who knows?' she said.

A neighbour told Nine News Queensland he had never seen Potter at the house.

'I've never seen the man they arrested this morning,' the man said.

Another resident of the street, Paul Adamson, said the house where the fugitive was found was known as a junkyard but had actually been 'tidied up' recently.

'At the moment it looks the best it's been since I’ve been here. You couldn't even see the house two weeks ago.' he said.

Mr Adamson said Potter had been known to visit the house.

'He was there years ago. He was on the run years ago and they’d found he’d been staying there,' he said.

On Tuesday Potter appeared via video link from the Mareeba watchhouse to hear Magistrate Thomas Braes make an order for him to be returned to Victoria to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Victorian detectives travelled from Melbourne on Tuesday morning to escort Potter from Queensland.

There was no application for bail.

The convicted murderer, who has an extensive criminal history, was dubbed Australia's 'number one fugitive' by Victoria Police acting assistant crime commissioner Paul De Santo in 2017.

Historical police records show Potter lining up for a mugshot as early as 1976, when he was aged just 18.

Five years later, he was jailed for life for the murder of teenager Kim Barry, 19, in Wollongong, after he beat her and cut off her head. He was released in 1996 after serving just 15 years.
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