HM Prison Kirkham: here are all the absconders Lancashire police have had to hunt down in the last year
By Conor Marlborough
Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT
Updated 4th Jul 2019, 13:15 GMT
This is a breakdown of all the all the absconders from HM Prison Kirkham in the last year that Lancashire police had to hunt down.
Two of these offenders absconded within 24 hours of each other, and are yet to be caught.
Convicted murderer, Thomas Parkinson.
Welch was jailed for five and a half years for burglary by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court in 2016. He absconded on Wednesday, June 27, 2018.
Parry was jailed for domestic burglary in December 2017, and walked out of Kirkham Prison on Wednesday, July 11, 2018.
Hopkins walked out of Kirham Prison on Monday, August 6, 2018. He had been sentenced to six years with a four year extended licence for robbery in September 2015.
Smith was serving a sentence for drug offences when he absconded from Kirkham Prison on Saturday, August 11, 2018.
Hulme, who was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery in 2015, absconded from HMP Kirkham on Monday, August 27, 2018.
Gilworth went missing from the prison on Wednesday, August 29, 2018.
