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Prisoner fled 'like a cat' after attending hospital

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Vincent
Published date18 November 2021
Craig Inskip, 35, grimaced and complained about the pain in his back as the prison vehicle went over potholes on the journey to the afternoon hospital appointment at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton.

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Prosecutor Jenny Haigh told Teesside Crown Court that the prison guard had to help Inskip out of the car and asked him if he needed a wheelchair for the long hospital corridors. Inskip said he was in so much pain he couldn't sign the release document required that day.

After the appointment, at which Inskip was prescribed painkillers, the prison guard instructed him to wait at the hospital entrance while he fetched the car.

Jenny Haigh said the car was around 50 metres away and the guard was gone for one or two minutes.

But Inskip sprinted away in seconds, with a witness telling police he "ran like a cat'.' .

The prisoner was at large for nine days before police, acting on intelligence, went to a North Tyneside address and were told by the man who answered the door that Inskip had left 10 minutes earlier.

But the officers found him curled up on the floor, hiding at the foot of a double bed.

He told them he had "already served more than enough time'' that he was being held illegally and in inhumane conditions, and that he just wanted to see his family and the graves of his family.

The court heard that Inskip was handed an indeterminate...

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