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\n Matthew Armstrong, 35. Pic: Avon and Somerset Police<\/p>\n
Armstrong was convicted of murdering someone during a robbery in Warwickshire in 2009.<\/p>\n
Washbourne has previous convictions for offences of false imprisonment and violence against a person, police said.<\/p>\n
Police have released footage of the two men walking through a building with their hands in their pockets.<\/p>\n
In an appeal to the public, the force said on Saturday evening: “The pair are not originally from Avon and Somerset and have links to various parts of the country.”<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Armstrong is described as a white man around 5ft 9ins in height, with ginger hair and scars on his forehead.<\/p>\n “He was last seen wearing a burgundy\/orange coat, grey cap, grey tracksuit bottoms with blue on the side, and black boots,” the force said, adding he has “known links to Warwickshire”.<\/p>\n Police described Washbourne as a white male, about 5ft 6ins tall, with brown hair and clean shaven.<\/p>\n Image: He was last seen wearing a cream fleece, blue tracksuit bottoms, a blue hat and black trainers. He has known links to Herefordshire, police said.<\/p>\n HMP Leyhill reported the absconders on Thursday evening and officers arrived at the location at around 9.45pm to begin their investigation.<\/p>\n “Urgent actions have already been completed, including circulating the men as wanted via national police systems,” Avon and Somerset Constabulary said previously.<\/p>\n “Intelligence work to trace the men’s movements is ongoing.”<\/p>\n Members of the public who believe they have recognised either of the men have been urged not to approach them.<\/p>\n They have been asked to call 999 instead, quoting the reference number 5226000700.<\/p>\n A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Absconding is a serious criminal offence, and any prisoner who commits this crime could face longer behind bars.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prisoner has been charged with escaping on New Year’s Day, while two others are still at large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-352628","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\/352628","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=352628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Anthony Joshua shares photo in first public update since car crash<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Daniel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/skynews-daniel-washbourne_7125439.jpg\")
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\n Daniel Washbourne, 40. Pic: Avon and Somerset Police<\/p>\n