{"id":432644,"date":"2026-02-18T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:24:08","slug":"prisoner-daniel-boakye-appears-in-drill-video-after-absconding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432644\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Daniel Boakye appears in drill video after absconding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The song includes the lyrics &#8220;I just broke out of jail like Modie&#8221;, referring to a character from the TV series Top Boy, and brags about being &#8220;fresh home&#8221;, champagne and cannabis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boakye was jailed for six years and five months in 2023 for being part of a robbery gang that held victims at knifepoint to get their phone passcodes in order to steal a total of \u00a3115,000 of cryptocurrency, as well as using bank details to pay for taxis and top-up cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: &#8220;We are searching for a 21-year-old man who absconded from Lewisham Hospital at around 3.05pm on Sunday, February 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Officers gave chase but could not detain Boakye before he left the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are currently reviewing this incident to fully understand the events which unfolded. The Met&#8217;s directorate of professional standards is aware.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The song includes the lyrics &#8220;I just broke out of jail like Modie&#8221;, referring to a character from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-432644","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\/432644","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=432644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}