{"id":359944,"date":"2026-01-09T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:46:07","slug":"attempted-murderer-who-escaped-from-23-year-prison-sentence-is-recaptured-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359944\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted murderer who escaped from 23 year prison sentence is recaptured | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who absconded from prison while serving a 23-year sentence for attempted murder has been taken back into custody, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Kieran Cameron, 43, was reported missing from HMP Thorn Cross, an open prison in Warrington, Cheshire, at 9.20pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron was handed his prison sentence for an attempted murder in Dorset in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/bodies-of-man-and-boy-discovered-at-separate-homes-in-dublin-13492062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bodies of man and boy discovered at separate homes in Dublin<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-murder-of-army-officer-near-barracks-13491868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man pleads guilty to attempted murder of soldier near barracks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is known to have extensive links to Manchester, Liverpool and Dorset, Cheshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p>The force said on Thursday evening that Cameron had been arrested in the Hulme area of Manchester by officers from the Cheshire Police Serious and Organised Crime unit.<\/p>\n<p>In an appeal on Wednesday, members of the public were warned not approach him and to call 999 immediately if they came into contact with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who absconded from prison while serving a 23-year sentence for attempted murder has been taken back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359944","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\/359944","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=359944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}