Overview
- Police were alerted shortly after 03:30 on February 10 that a prisoner had escaped from a west London hospital while under the care of prison staff.
- Officers identified the fugitive as Daniel Boakye, 21, from HMP Feltham, and said urgent enquiries are under way to locate him and return him to custody.
- The Prison Service said it is working with the Metropolitan Police to recapture Boakye and is investigating how the hospital escape occurred.
- Boakye was sentenced in July 2023 to six years and five months for conspiracy to commit robbery and an additional robbery offence tied to knife-point thefts.
- He was part of a group that targeted victims’ phones to transfer cryptocurrency worth more than £115,000, and while unnamed sources describe him as extremely dangerous with possible gang links, police have provided limited further detail.