Overview
- Cleveland Police began an active search Monday after he was reported missing around 4:30pm.
- The 44-year-old vanished shortly after 2pm after a shift at the prison’s public car valeting service during an unsupervised day release.
- Officers are using dogs, a drone and CCTV review during the search, and they warned people to call 999 and not to approach.
- Police said he is not from Teesside and have no indication of his destination, including whether he travelled via Yarm train station.
- Laidlaw was convicted in 2007 for three attempted murders in 2006 north London shootings that injured Abu Kamara, Evans Baptiste and Emma Sheridan.