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Murderer vanishes from hospital | Murderer vanishes from hospital |
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A police manhunt has been launched after a convicted murderer escaped from a hospital. | |
Lee Nevins, 24, gave prison guards the slip while being treated at Sunderland Royal Hospital on Tuesday. | |
Northumbria police urged the public not to approach Nevins, who is serving a minimum 17-year term at top-security Frankland Prison, in Durham. | |
Nevins is described as white, 5ft 11in tall, with fair hair, blue eyes and an oval-shaped face. | Nevins is described as white, 5ft 11in tall, with fair hair, blue eyes and an oval-shaped face. |
He was jailed in 2006 for the murder of a disabled man on Gateshead's Leam Lane Estate. | |
Vigilance urged | |
Nevins, who has previous convictions for violence, was wearing a blue polo shirt, navy Reebok tracksuit bottoms, dark coloured overcoat, white socks and dark grey trainers when he escaped. | |
Police say the prisoner has two fingers taped together. | |
Superintendent Janet Richards of Northumbria Police said there was no information to suggest Nevins posed a threat to the public at large, but advised the public not to approach him. | |
"We would ask the public to be vigilant," she said. | "We would ask the public to be vigilant," she said. |
"If anyone recognises this man and has any idea of his whereabouts they should ring 999 straightaway." | "If anyone recognises this man and has any idea of his whereabouts they should ring 999 straightaway." |
Head injuries | |
Nevins was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court of the murder of 20-year-old Lee Jobling. | |
The court heard that Nevins and another man, who were drunk, gatecrashed a party and taunted Mr Jobling, who had been left with a limp and a brain injury after falling from a bridge in 2001. | |
They attacked him, ignoring his pleas for mercy, and left him blood-soaked and fatally injured. | |
The court heard that as Mr Jobling struggled for breath and started grunting, they began singing Old MacDonald Had A Farm. | |
Mr Jobling died 19 days later from head injuries on 28 April 2006. |
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