Three prisoners serving sentences remain at large after absconding from open jails
Ola Abimbola, serving a 21-year sentence for kidnapping, grievous bodily harm and a weapons offence, has been missing since leaving HMP Ford in Sussex on 10 October last year. Two other men serving prison sentences, Oliver Mazirel and Darnell Smith, have also absconded from open prisons and remain at large, prompting warnings about the risks to the public.
Open prisons have limited security and allow eligible prisoners to leave for work or education. The article says the period in which some prisoners can be considered for transfer to open conditions was extended from one year to three to ease overcrowding; a prison governors’ representative warned this could increase public risk. In the year to March, 78 prisoners absconded from open conditions, 37 per cent more than in the previous 12 months.
- Three prisoners who absconded from open prisons remain at large.
- One has been wanted for more than a year.
- Abscondments rose 37 per cent to 78 in a year.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “The violent offenders on-the-run from Britain’s open prisons: Kidnapper who walked out of jail is still at large a YEAR later – amid warnings public are being put ‘at risk’”.