{"id":722948,"date":"2026-08-01T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:15:08","slug":"manhunt-after-prisoner-escapes-from-van-outside-liverpool-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722948\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt after prisoner escapes from van outside Liverpool court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A manhunt is under way after a prisoner escaped from a van taking him to a court appearance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Grzyb, 22, was being transported by contractor GEOAmey from Belle Vale custody suite to Liverpool Magistrates&#8217; Court to face burglary charges on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the van arrived outside the court building, at around 10:00 BST, Grzyb was able to flee and ran off down Red Cross Street towards the Strand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merseyside Police said: &#8220;Assisting him in any way will bring police to your own door, so it is not an association worth keeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt is under way after a prisoner escaped from a van taking him to a court appearance.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722948","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\/722948","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=722948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}