Two more serious offenders on the run from prison
Two prisoners escape from an open prison in Cheshire – a robber and a man convicted of possessing firearms – in the latest case of prisoners absconding from jail.
Picture: Anthony Peloe (left) and John Arnold (right)
Anthony Peloe, 43, and John Arnold, 30, have escaped from the Thorn Cross open prison in Warrington Cheshire.
Police are appealing for information on the prisoners’ whereabouts after they failed to return to jail as scheduled at 10.30am yesterday morning.
Mr Peloe was convicted of possession of firearms with intent to commit harm in 2005 and was sentenced to three years in jail, but with an indeterminate sentence. He is described by Cheshire police as a white man, five feet eight inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes and may be wearing green prison issue trousers.
Mr Arnold was convicted of robbery in 2006 and was sentenced to two years in prison, also on an indeterminate sentence. He is described as a white man, around five feet 11 inches tall of slim build, has brown hair and brown eyes and may also be wearing prison issue green trousers.
Police have advised the public not to approach either prisoner.
The escapes are the latest in a series of abscondments from jail, after two more prisoners from the same jail were reported missing last night – Damien Burns, 39, and Dean Jackson, 27.
Murderer Arnold Pickering, who stabbed a blind man to death, was arrested earlier this week after going on the run from jail, while Thomas Moffett, 51, who is serving an indeterminate sentence for a number of robberies, failed to return from day release on Saturday but was arrested for being unlawfully at large.
The latest escapes come two weeks after armed robber Michael Wheatley – nicknamed ‘Skull Cracker‘ – absconded from Standford Hill open prison on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, while on temporary release. He was later arrested.