{"id":343581,"date":"2025-12-30T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:42:08","slug":"public-urged-not-to-approach-prisoner-missing-from-open-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343581\/","title":{"rendered":"Public urged not to approach prisoner missing from open jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have urged the public not to approach a prisoner who failed to return to an open jail from an approved home visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The alarm was raised when James Fitzpatrick, 36, did not report back to HMP Castle Huntly in Dundee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was last seen in Irvine town centre about 11:20 on Monday and it is thought he may have boarded a bus heading to Ardrossan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said extensive inquiries were ongoing to trace Fitzpatrick, who has connections in the Ayrshire area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have urged the public not to approach a prisoner who failed to return to an open jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-343581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}