Updated 8:57pm 18 May 2012

Accused gets extra time for escaping

A YOUNG man who fled from Liverpool Crown Court after being sentenced has been locked up for an extra five months.

Wayne Fenlon jump-ed on a chair and vaulted over the high glass screen of the dock after being told he would serve 18 months in a young offenders’ institute in May, 2007.

After muttering "no" at his sentence, Fenlon, then 19, was led down to the room at the side of court to be taken into the cells.

But before he could be handcuffed he staged a dramatic escape – bolting from the dock and running from the fourth floor court.

He raced out of the Derby Square building and was last seen fleeing in Church Street on May 8.

Fenlon, now 20, appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court again last month and admitted the escape.

Judge David Aubrey, QC, yesterday ordered him to serve an extra five months for the break-out. It will be added on to the original sentence handed down for a burglary at an old people’s home.

Fenlon, formerly of Newby Street, Kirk- dale, had pleaded guilty to breaking into a resi- dent’s room in Abbey Lawns nursing home in Anfield, with intent to steal. He was arrested after finger-print evidence linked him to the scene.

Since committing the break-in Fenlon had served a custodial sentence for another burglary.

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