Manhunt underway for prisoner who escaped from hospital

People are told ‘do not approach’ the captive who is connected the tally from a infirmary successful Greater Manchester.

A manhunt is underway for Jonathon Windsor who ‘escaped lawful custody’ arsenic helium was being ‘escorted by situation staff,’ the constabulary said.

The 31-year-old managed to fly from Salford Royal Hospital contiguous aft receiving treatment, the MEN reports.

Now the constabulary person released a representation of Windsor who is simply a captive astatine HMP Forest Bank.

He was reportedly wearing a grey apical and was successful handcuffs erstwhile helium escaped the infirmary connected Stott Lane.

Windsor is known to person links crossed the North West and southbound Manchester.

Greater Manchester Police told the nationalist not to attack him if spotted and study immoderate sightings immediately.

One nonmigratory surviving adjacent the infirmary said they heard a chopper astatine astir 1pm circling above, but ‘thought thing of it’ astatine first.

They alleged a neighbour told them constabulary had knocked connected doors and warned that a captive had escaped from the infirmary ‘in a grey apical and handcuffs,’ the outlet reports.

The nonmigratory said: ‘We perceive things each the clip with the infirmary being connected the doorstep and the motorway nearby.

‘It was lone erstwhile I went extracurricular astatine astir 2.45 and a neighbour said the constabulary had spoken to them and asked them if they had seen anything, arsenic a captive had escaped wearing a grey apical and inactive successful handcuffs.

‘There were constabulary cars and motorbikes everyplace and they were checking each the roads adjacent Wilton Road and past checking the tract astatine De La Salle.

‘They were walking circular the backmost of the gathering connected the playing fields evidently looking for him. It’s gone quieter present but we’ve not been told if the captive has been recovered oregon not.’

Officers were seen searching the Sale Water Park astir 10 miles southeast of the infirmary successful Manchester. It borders a ample wooded country and a quality reserve on the River Mersey.

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