Mental patient who escaped from hospital to stab jogger is back behind bars

Crystal Palace

A dangerous mental patient who escaped through a hospital window and stabbed a jogger in a random attack was locked up for at least 14 years today. Reece Davis, 25, feigned illness to get a transfer from his secure unit to Croydon University Hospital before unscrewing the bolts on the frame and scrambling to freedom. Urgent appeals were issued by police the next day but Davis was able to steal two kitchen knives from Sainsbury’s and stab 32 year-old Christian…

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