A convicted criminal, who escaped custody on Tuesday, has spent the night in hospital after he was arrested in Belfast.

Derek Brockwell left a prison officer with his “intestines hanging out” such was the ferocity of his knife attack, gardaí have said.

Escaped convict Derek Brockwell was in a serious condition in a Belfast hospital last night after being injured when confronted by police. PSNI used a Taser stun gun to incapacitate him with reports suggesting he had injured himself with a knife, though it is unknown whether it was deliberate.

AFTER Ireland’s air and sea ports were on high alert following the escape of a violent and dangerous prisoner who stabbed two prison officers, the spotlight rightly turned to the vexed issue of security. 

A notorious British prisoner who escaped after allegedly stabbing two prison officers and fleeing from Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has been recaptured.

Gardaí are continuing to search for a convicted criminal who stabbed two prison officers yesterday and escaped from custody while on a visit to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

A major manhunt is ongoing in Dublin, after an inmate at Portlaoise Prison made a violent escape, during which two prison officers were stabbed.

A prisoner has escaped from Tallaght hospital after stabbing two prison officers.