{"id":510158,"date":"2026-04-03T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:21:10","slug":"escaped-dorset-prisoner-jason-evans-sparks-police-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510158\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Dorset prisoner Jason Evans sparks police manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Police are appealing for information from the public to help find him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dorset Police received a report shortly before 5.30pm today that 32-year-old Jason Evans had made off from a prisoner transport vehicle in Poole Road in Poole.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers have attended the location and are carrying out detailed searches in the area, with assistance from the NPAS helicopter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Evans was charged with assault and other offences and had appeared at Poole Magistrates\u2019 Court today where he was remanded by the court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is described as white, 5ft 8ins tall and of medium build with ginger hair and was last seen wearing grey clothing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Superintendent Joe Pardey, of Dorset Police, said: \u201cI would like to reassure members of the public that we have officers carrying out searches and other enquiries in a bid to locate Jason Evans as soon as possible and return him to lawful custody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI would urge anyone who has seen a man in the area who matches the description given above and appears to be avoiding detection to please come forward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe would ask the public not to approach him directly and to please dial 999 immediately.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere will be an extensive police presence in the area as we carry out these enquiries and officers can be approached by members of the community with any concerns.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you see Jason Evans you should dial 999 immediately. Anyone else with information should call 101, quoting incident number 2:388 or Crimestoppers in confidence on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information from the public to help find him. Dorset Police received a report shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510158","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=510158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}