Fugitive prisoner arrested over bank robbery
An armed robber on the run from prison was arrested today – after gunmen robbed a bank in Northern Ireland.
Evin Paul Brown, 24, had been wanted after failing to return to Magilligan Prison in Co Derry after being given ten days’ parole over Christmas and the New Year.
He was one of two men arrested on suspicion of armed robbery when police set up road blocks and stopped a car on the outskirts of the Co Armagh village of Keady after a robbery at a local bank.
A short time earlier two armed men had held up staff at the Bank of Ireland branch in Keady, one jumping over the counter to rifle tills, said a Police Service spokesman.
Police said after they arrested the suspects they discovered one of the men was unlawfully at large from prison.
Brown is the only man who failed to return to prison after the Christmas parole and the Prison Service had already made appeals for his return. A youth is also missing from a young offender’s centre.
The Prison Service confirmed a man posted unlawfully at large at Christmas had been arrested and was in police custody.
Brown is from Warrenpoint, Co Down and was nearing the end of a sentence imposed for armed robbery when he was among 118 inmates given parole for the festive season.
