HC Deb 01 March 1991 vol 186 cc645-6W
Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Maureen Amaker Mgbadike, Desiree Adina Caesar, Nana Adoma Frimpomaah and Abiodun Omolara Kafo, who escaped from East Sutton Park on 22 November 1987, 9 September and 21 September 1989 have since been recaptured.

Mrs. Rumbold

No. These four women are still unlawfully at large.

Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 25 February to the right hon. Member for Swansea, West on recaptures of escapees, which of the escapees were on drug-related offences; which of the escapees were in debt to the courts; and which escapees' passports are in the possession of the Home Office.

Mrs. Rumbold

The six women concerned had all been convicted of drug offences. None is known to have been in debt to the courts at the time of their escapes. Four passports are in the possession of the immigration service; one is held by the Customs and Excise Department; and one has been returned to the Jamaican High Commission.