An American nurse convicted of starting a fire that killed a billionaire banker has been recaptured after staging a daring escape from a Monaco prison.

An American male nurse convicted starting a fire that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra has escaped from prison in Monaco.

A male nurse who set fire to a Monaco penthouse in an arson attack that killed his billionaire boss was today jailed for 10 years.

THE nurse stumbled, stabbed and bleeding, out of the elevator of his billionaire employer’s luxury penthouse.

A FORMER US soldier went on trial under tight security in the exclusive Mediterranean principality of Monaco yesterday, accused of a 1999 arson attack that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra.