Central Station closed

[smoggeordie 0]

POLICE in Newcastle closed the city's main railway station in a bid to find a convicted murderer on the run from prison.

 

Lee Nevins was believed to be on a train arriving into Newcastle Central station.

 

Policed closed the station from 7pm as they carried out a search but did not find Nevins.

 

Nevins, 24, who was serving a minimum 17-year sentence at the top security Frankland Prison in Durham, escaped from Sunderland Royal Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

 

While he was at the hospital, for treatment to an injury to his left hand, he asked to be taken to the toilet and managed to slip one set of handcuffs and past two guards.

 

He jailed for beating to death 20-year-old disabled man, Lee Jobling, after drunkenly gate-crashing a party at his flat in Gateshead’s Leam Lane Estate in April 2006.

 

A spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said: “Police responded to information that escaped prisoner Lee Nevins was to arrive at Newcastle Central train station at 7pm.”

 

She added: “The decision to close a train station is a significant one and can cause alarm to the public.

 

“We would like to stress that the station was closed in connection with the search for Nevins and for nothing else.”

 

Police are continuing to follow up a number of possible sightings of Nevins.

 

Crimestoppers has offered a cash reward of 1,000 for information leading to his arrest.

 

[@yourservice 67]

Jason's brother? On the Run DMC

 

 

 

[Scottish Mag 3]

I nearly never got home last night because of it.

 

Hundreds of commuters shut outside central station with no sign of any police or rail staff and no explanantion either. I was on the verge of just meeting back up with those at the piss up and making a night out of it.

[Kid Dynamite 7337]

Hes a tit if 6 days on hes managed to escape a whole 10miles from where he was locked up. He should be in the back of a van on the way to Hungary by now!

[ewerk 31644]

Aye he's no Mike Schofield now.