Escaped convict was a ‘model citizen’

A prisoner charged with carrying out a post office raid in 1996 in Cork escaped from custody and fled to England, where he became a model citizen until his recent arrest and extradition.

Det Gda Padraig Harrington said yesterday Christopher Keohane, formerly of The Crescent, Curraheen Estate, Wilton, Cork, was beaten up in jail and taken to Cork Regional Hospital. Prison officers allowed him to step out under escort for a cigarette but he fled.

Keohane, now 43, was a young man when he left Cork and he started a family in England and worked all the time he was there. Marjorie Farrelly, defending, said he was a model citizen.