Prisoner escape from hospital

GARDAÍ were last night searching for a prisoner who jumped out of the third floor window of a Dublin hospital where he was being treated.

Prison officers yesterday called for secure areas in hospitals for convicts after the man escaped through a toilet window at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital at 10.15pm on Monday night.

Gardaí are searching for 26-year-old Thomas Connors who is serving an eight-year sentence in Wheatfield Prison for dangerous driving causing death. He was due for release in 2006.