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<\/p>\nA major police search is underway for a 20-year-old prisoner described as “extremely dangerous” after he absconded from a west London hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Daniel Boakye, who was being held at HMP Feltham, managed to flee from West Middlesex Hospital while under escort from the young offenders institution.<\/p>\n
He is serving a six-year sentence for a series of knifepoint cryptocurrency thefts, is believed to have gang affiliations and a history of violence.<\/p>\n
Staff at Feltham were informed of the incident via email at 8am this morning.<\/p>\n
Boakye, from Enfield in north London, received a sentence of six years and five months at Wood Green Court after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery.<\/p>\n
A source familiar with the situation described Boakye as a serious threat, saying: “Although he is only in for robbery, Boakye is extremely dangerous and has links to serious gang members.”<\/p>\n
\u201cBoakye is a gangster and his violence inside Feltham has been off the scale. He has attacked staff and other inmates and mixed with other gang members inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is also a drill rapper who boasts about violence in his lyrics.”<\/p>\n
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The source explained that prisoners in such circumstances would typically be handcuffed to a guard at all times, adding: “The fear is that an officer has made a mistake and un-cuffed him for some reason.”<\/p>\n
They also noted: “He has a history of having, or pretending to have, seizures, so that could be why he was at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Boakye was among four teenagers convicted in 2023 following a series of armed robberies targeting cryptocurrency holders across London.<\/p>\n
The gang, which included Justin Popoola, Nathan Mohalland and a 17-year-old, carried out their crimes between June 2021 and January 2022.<\/p>\n
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The escape follows a series of embarrassing incidents for the prison service<\/p>\n
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Victims were threatened at knifepoint and forced to surrender their mobile phones along with the passcodes required to access them.<\/p>\n
The group then transferred victims’ digital currency into their own accounts, stealing more than \u00a3155,000 in total.<\/p>\n
Boakye is understood to have connections to OFB, or Original Farm Boys, a gang based around the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, per The Sun.<\/p>\n
The source added: “The only person who should take a decision to un-cuff him is a duty governor and it looks like that won’t have happened here.”<\/p>\n
The escape follows a series of embarrassing incidents for the prison service. Almost 100 prisoners were mistakenly freed from jail during a six month period, figures from November revealed. <\/p>\n
A total of 91 inmates were wrongly released between April 1 and October 31, according to the latest Ministry of Justice figures.<\/p>\n
Last year, Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and fraudster Billy Smith were accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth. <\/p>\n
They followed the high-profile jail blunder of Hadush Kebatu, the now-deported migrant at the heart of protests in Epping, Essex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major police search is underway for a 20-year-old prisoner described as “extremely dangerous” after he absconded from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35884,924,59,57,58,388,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419181","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=419181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}