Hospital escapee found teaching in French school

AN Irishman who escaped from a psychiatric hospital where he was interned for knifing a colleague in the neck “without warning” has been found working as a German teacher in a French secondary school.

Lewis Alexander Mawhinney, 26, of Knockburn Drive, Lisburn, Belfast, was only properly identified by authorities almost a month after starting work at the school.

The Irishman was sentenced to an unspecified period in a psychiatric unit by Belfast Crown Court in November 2008 after stabbing Stephen Hayes in a lift in September 2007 during a call centre induction course.