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By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent in Libya

The hunt for the world's most wanted people smuggler took us through some of the most inhospitable places on Earth as well as some of the most dangerous.

We traced the key human trafficking routes used by one of the kingpins and followed the same path through which his network has smuggled thousands of migrants.

We saw the vast expanse of the Sahara desert crossed by hundreds and witnessed the instability across Libya which has created the perfect anarchic conditions for smugglers to flourish.

We (the Sky documentary team of myself, cameraman Garwen McLuckie, director Toby Sculthorp and producer Mike Mawhinney) travelled through a string of no-go areas, where law and order is non-existent and saw how migrants were abused, beaten, humiliated but most of all exploited by almost everyone they came across in their quest to get to Europe.