Escapee slipped handcuffs but couldn’t open fire exit door

A bungling inmate who slipped free of his handcuffs during a hospital visit was caught when he failed to open the fire exit door, a court heard. James Nyman, 21, made a break for it after he was taken to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington for an X-ray last November. Nyman was serving an 18-month jail sentence in Wormwood Scrubs for offences including theft, possession of a weapon in public place, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. ‘He was just…