Man absconds from hospital unit

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A prison inmate who absconded while undergoing assessment at a hospital facility is being hunted by police.

Edward O'Neil, 47, has served approximately one year of a four-year jail sentence at Norwich Prison for distraction burglary offences.

He was undergoing assessment at Cawston Park psychiatric facility, in Norfolk, when he absconded on Friday.

Two men, known to O'Neil, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting him to abscond, police said.

Norwich area

O'Neil is white, 5ft 4in and speaks with a Scottish accent.

He is now clean shaven with short greying hair and was last seen wearing a dark-coloured tracksuit.

It is believed he may have been in the Bowthorpe area of Norwich on Friday night.

Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen him to contact them.

They advised people not approach him but to dial 999.