A crime investigations television programme is to show images of the man who left a severed head at an Amsterdam water pipe café a week ago, police announced on Tuesday.

Opsporing Verzocht has been given permission to relay images from private cameras on the Amstelveenseweg in the south of the city.

They show a man running quietly with a bag in his hands towards the Fayrouz café. Separate images after he has left the head show him hurrying towards Stadionplein.

Police research has shown that the head had been there for five hours by Wednesday, March 9^. It belonged to 23-year-old Amsterdammer Nabil Amzieb, whose body was found in a burned-out car in Amsterdam’s Zuidoost district earlier last Tuesday.

According the Parool newspaper, he is not thought to have been a main gang member and was probably killed as a warning to others.

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The café where the head was left reportedly had a central role in ongoing turf wars between rival Moroccan criminal gangs and was last week closed by Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan.

A police spokesperson added that the man in the images can avoid their broadcast by giving himself up.