On-the-run arrest
Date published: 11 July 2014
A SECOND Oldham man who absconded from prison has now been arrested.
Gareth Robinson (24), jailed for burglary, was captured in the borough by police on Tuesday.
Robinson and Philip Stephenson (33) had absconded together from HMP Kirkham in Blackpool on Saturday with police chiefs warning they were believed to be heading for Oldham.
Stephenson, serving a sentence for a firearms offence, was also arrested on Tuesday in Oldham as well as a 24-year-old woman on suspicion of harbouring an escaped prisoner.
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