{"id":360835,"date":"2026-01-09T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:05:07","slug":"convicted-murderer-charged-with-absconding-from-prison-near-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360835\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted murderer charged with absconding from prison near Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police said occupants of the home were threatened and a mobile phone and cash were stolen in the incident on the evening of 31 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A search had been under way for Armstrong, Daniel Washbourne and Aaron Thomas<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr5726emrm1o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> after they failed to return<\/a> to the category D prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washbourne, 40, who has previous convictions for violence, was arrested in Bristol on Wednesday and appeared at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday charged with escaping lawful custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Thomas, 39, was arrested on Saturday after voluntarily handing himself in to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd9exkdvenko\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with escaping lawful custody<\/a> and is next due to appear in court in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avon and Somerset Police said occupants of the home were threatened and a mobile phone and cash were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360835","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\/360835","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=360835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}