{"id":658651,"date":"2025-12-27T23:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658651\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:15:24","slug":"prisoner-on-the-run-after-escaping-on-christmas-day-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658651\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner on the run after escaping on Christmas Day | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are looking for a man who escaped prison on Christmas Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mahad Elmi, 27, is on the run after escaping from HMP Spring Hill in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police said.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred overnight from Thursday into Boxing Day, when Elmi absconded from the open prison, near the village of Grendon Underwood.<\/p>\n

HMP Spring Hill, which houses over 300 inmates, is a Category D facility with “minimal security” that allows eligible prisoners to spend much of their day away from the prison on licence for work, education, or resettlement activities.<\/p>\n

Thames Valley Police described Elmi as a “black man, around 5ft 8ins tall, of medium build, with medium-length black hair, a beard, and brown eyes”.<\/p>\n

He is known to have connections to southwest London.<\/p>\n

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The force said Elmi “no longer has any authority or lawful licence to be in the community and is therefore considered unlawfully at large”.<\/p>\n

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Detective Sergeant Matthew French, from Buckinghamshire’s Priority Crime Team, said: “We are appealing for the help of the public to trace Mahad Elmi, who is unlawfully at large after leaving and not returning to HMP Spring Hill.<\/p>\n

“If you see Elmi, do not approach him and call 999 instead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a man who escaped prison on Christmas Day.\u00a0 Mahad Elmi, 27, is on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-658651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115794078825532745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}