{"id":431024,"date":"2026-02-17T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:05:08","slug":"violent-prisoner-due-for-deportation-escapes-custody-for-second-time-in-a-week-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431024\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Violent’ prisoner due for deportation escapes custody for second time in a week | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “violent” prisoner with gang affiliations who is due for deportation is on the run for the second time in a week, Sky News understands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police are hunting for Daniel Boakye after he escaped from police custody in a hospital in Lewisham, south London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boakye, 21, had been serving time at HMP Feltham for robbery charges. He is understood to be violent, has gang connections, and is due for deportation to Ghana.<\/p>\n

He had already gone missing after freeing himself from prison custody at West Middlesex University Hospital in the early hours of 10 February.<\/p>\n

The prison service said at the time they were “urgently” working with the Metropolitan Police, and were investigating how he was able to escape from hospital.<\/p>\n

Officers located him at an address in Thamesmead, southeast London, on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Boakye again absconded from policy custody, this time at Lewisham Hospital, where he had been receiving medical treatment.<\/p>\n

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Police are now appealing for information to help them find him.<\/p>\n

“Officers gave chase, but could not detail Boakye before he left the building,” a Metropolitan Police<\/a> spokesperson told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“He is 21 years old, black, of medium height and slim build. He was wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, and a dark Nike jacket, when he absconded.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A “violent” prisoner with gang affiliations who is due for deportation is on the run for the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-431024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431024","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=431024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}