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Friday, January 16, 2009

Escaped prisoner captured

Escaped prisoner captured

A man accused of racially motivated assaults who escaped after armed men held up a prison van in which he was being taken to court, was recaptured on Friday after four days on the run.

Wayne Connor was arrested in a hotel room in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, shortly after midnight, London police said. He is now being questioned.

The 20-year-old escaped from on Monday after two men armed with a shotgun held up a Serco security van shortly after it left Feltham Young Offenders Institute in west London en route to Woolwich Crown Court.

The men, wearing balaclavas, threatened the van's driver and a colleague demanded Connor's release. Police said the suspects were still at large.

Connor had been due to attend a hearing later on Monday accused of two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm, aggravated burglary and burglary
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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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