{"id":456762,"date":"2026-03-04T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:48:08","slug":"drill-rapper-who-twice-escaped-police-custody-detained-in-france-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456762\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill rapper who twice escaped police custody detained in France | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drill rapper who escaped from police custody twice in the space of a week has been detained in France.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniel Boakye, 21, who performs under the name Dsavv, had escaped from West Middlesex University Hospital<\/a> last month, only to be caught by officers the next day.<\/p>\n

The rapper had been serving time at HMP Feltham for robbery, and was due for deportation to Ghana.<\/p>\n

However, officers had put him in hospital under police custody so he could be treated for a medical issue.<\/p>\n

This time he was taken to Lewisham Hospital in southeast London, only to escape again on 15 February.<\/p>\n

It is believed that he was later smuggled out of the country in a lorry.<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:
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Boakye apparently posted a video online taunting the police following his escape.<\/p>\n

It showed a rapper performing in front of a news report about the escape, telling viewers: “I just broke out of jail like Modie”, in reference to a character from Netflix series Top Boy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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His arrest follows a joint operation by officers from the Met, the National Crime Agency and French law enforcement partners.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said he was arrested in La Bouexiere in Brittany, northwestern France, on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “Arrangements are now under way to return him to custody in the UK.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drill rapper who escaped from police custody twice in the space of a week has been detained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456762","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\/456762","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=456762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}