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<\/p>\nPolice have released new CCTV images of a convicted murderer and a second prisoner who escaped from a prison in Cromhall, Gloucestershire on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n
Avon and Somerset Police said they had received a number of reported sightings of Matthew Armstrong and Daniel Washbourne, who absconded from HMP Leyhill.<\/p>\n
Armstrong was convicted of murdering someone during a robbery in Warwickshire in 2009.<\/p>\n
Washbourne has previous convictions for offences of false imprisonment and violence against a person, police said.<\/p>\n
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Image:
\n At about 9.40am, a man is captured on CCTV walking along Filton Road and then Gloucester Road North, Bristol. Pic: Avon & Somerset Police<\/p>\n
On Saturday, two men matching their descriptions were pictured in Ashley Road, Bristol at around 10.35am. They are seen walking towards the Stokes Croft area.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Then, on Sunday, at around 9.35am-9.45am, a man is seen walking along Filton Road and then Gloucester Road North in Filton, stopping at one stage to look at bus timetables.<\/p>\n The man is wearing a burgundy coat matching the one worn by Armstrong when he left HMP Leyhill.<\/p>\n Image: Police believe he continues to walk along the same road and is seen in the Patchway area at about 11.05am-11.15am.<\/p>\n Armstrong is 35 years old and described as a white male, about 5ft 9ins, with ginger hair and has links to Warwickshire.<\/p>\n Washbourne, 40, is described as white, male, about 5ft 6ins, slim, with brown hair, clean shaven and has links to Herefordshire.<\/p>\n Three men were initially reported to have absconded from the South Gloucestershire prison between 5-8pm on Thursday 1 January.<\/p>\n A 39-year-old man was arrested by Avon and Somerset Police in Bristol on the afternoon of Saturday 3 January.<\/p>\n He has since been charged with escaping lawful custody and appeared in court yesterday. He is due to attend Bristol Crown Court next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released new CCTV images of a convicted murderer and a second prisoner who escaped from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115850906433023536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678754","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=678754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n Armstrong is 35 years old and ‘a white, male, 5ft 9ins, with ginger hair and with links to Warwickshire’. Pics: Avon & Somerset Police<\/p>\n