{"id":624769,"date":"2026-09-14T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:08:10","slug":"murderer-unlawfully-at-large-after-not-returning-to-northern-ireland-prison-after-day-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624769\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderer unlawfully at large after not returning to Northern Ireland prison after day release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CONVICTED MURDERER is unlawfully at large after failing to return to prison after being granted day release.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Anderson (29) was convicted alongside his brother Sean Anderson for the 2018 murder of Karol Kelly in Derry.<\/p>\n<p>Father-of-five Kelly was stabbed several times in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Gary Anderson was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder.<\/p>\n<p>He was today on day release from prison, but has not returned.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is around 5ft 11in tall, of slim build and with brown hair.<\/p>\n<p>The PSNI has appealed directly to Anderson to hand himself in.<\/p>\n<p>The PSNI also asked that anyone who has seen him, or who knows of his whereabouts, not approach him directly but instead contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be provided anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CONVICTED MURDERER is unlawfully at large after failing to return to prison after being granted day release.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7726,115013,61,60,265365,43,7288],"class_list":["post-624769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-derry","tag-gary-anderson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-karol-kelly","tag-news","tag-psni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}