Gardaí apprehend on-the-run British sex offender

Gardaí intercepted and detained an escaped British sex offender as he was about to board a plane to Hungary yesterday morning.

Julian Myerscough, a former university law lecturer from Bolton, absconded from Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday. The 53 year-old fled from court shortly before a jury convicted him, in his absence, of 16 charges of downloading indecent images of children. According to the East Anglian Daily Times he had pleaded not guilty to three offences of breaching a sexual offences prevention order between December 2010 and September 2013 and 13 offences of making indecent images of children. A crown court warrant was immediately issued for his arrest. British police believe he left Ipswich on a train bound for London’s Liverpool Street.

However, it stopped a number of times before that destination and when officers checked it at Liverpool Street they found no sign of him.