An armed robber who spent three weeks on the run after escaping from a secure unit has been recaptured.
Ashley Waterman, 20, was arrested by armed police officers at an address in west London in the early hours.
Waterman, who was serving a five-year term for robbing a branch of McDonald's in Camden, north London, escaped during a visit to a mental health centre.
He was being taken from the Feltham Young Offenders Institution to the secure unit in west London.
Armed officers also arrested two 16-year-old girls at the same time on suspicion of assisting an offender, the Metropolitan Police said.
Waterman and the two girls remain in custody at a central London police station.
does this mean that armed police have grasped the tricky art of arresting people without shooting them? That deserves a national holiday in brazil...
ReplyDeleteprisonguru: I was quite surprised that armed police were involved and that their itchy trigger fingers remained steady.
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