Express
June 27, 2015
Ross Underwood, 30, strolled out of HMP in Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire for a SECOND time after claiming he was being “picked on” by Islamic prisoners and “feared for his life”.
He had been sentenced to seven years and three months behind bars in January last year for his part in a series of robberies in which he stole £43,200.
Underwood was initially sent to HMP Woodhill, a category A prison in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire – but was moved to the open prison on May 15.
But he absconded just 10 days after his transfer on May 24 and was found after a week-long manhunt hiding in a flat in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire.
Judge Michael Fowler sentenced Underwood, of Leeds, to an extra six months in prison on top of his previous jail term at Northampton Crown Court on Monday.