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Police patrolling with tracker dogs w r ere searching last evening for an inmate who escaped from the Rolieston Detention Centre.
David Alexander Gough, aged 18, escaped shortly after 8 pun. He is described as European, 1730 m tall (sft 9in), of medium
build, with brown hair and brown eyes. When last seen, GOugh was wearing a dark blue shirt and trousers and sandshoes. He has numerous tattoos on his arms.
A police spokesman said Gough may have been armed with a knife, and anyone ..sighting him was warned not to approach him. A
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Press, 29 March 1980, Page 6
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