Man who escaped police custody now jailed
Five others from most wanted list still at large
Paul Harry Johns, 31. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A Skegness man who escaped police custody and was on Lincolnshire Police’s ‘most wanted’ list has now been jailed.
Paul Harry Johns, 31, of Chestnut Grove in Skegness, was later arrested and charged with a string of offences, including driving whilst disqualified, using a vehicle without insurance, escaping lawful custody, obstructing an officer and failing to answer bail.
He failed to appear in court in December last year, but after hearing at Lincoln Magistrates Court on Friday, January 8 he was jailed for 24 weeks.
COVID R rate spikes nationwide as third vaccine approved
Almost one in 50 people had the virus last week
| Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
The UK’s R (reproduction) number has risen as the country’s medical regulators have approved a new vaccine for use.
An additional 10 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine have been ordered by the government after it was said to meet the strict safety and quality standards.
It comes as the Office for National Statistics estimates that almost one in 50 people had the virus during the week to January 2.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has said the coronavirus reproduction number has risen to between 1 and 1.4 up from its December figure of 1.1 and 1.3.
Angry residents have slammed the National Trust after a post code blunder caused hundreds of motorists to flood into their upmarket village during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Villagers next to historic Belton House say visitors to a lights trail at the Grade I listed Georgian estate drove up their driveways and were even knocking on doors to ask for directions to the entrance.
The traffic chaos was so bad that residents on one lane chose to barricade their street with wheelie bins to prevent further disruption caused by visitors to the country home, near Grantham, Lincs.
Belton villager Bernard Norton claims the National Trust put the misleading post code on tickets and its advertising to take visitors away from the Lion Gates on the other side of the estate.