Prisoner recaptured
An escaper from Paparua Prison, Michael James Edwards, was recaptured in Christchurch late last evening. Edwards, one of two prisoners who went missing from a work party on June 3, was arrested at 11.25 p.m. He had flagged down a taxi on Bealey Avenue, but the driver became suspicious and pulled over near a police cordon, which was in the area after the burglary of a nearby pharmacy. The police chased Edwards through a number of properties, catching him at the corner of Bealey Avenue and Barbadoes Street. Three prison escapers are still at large in the Christchurch area. Ashley Noel Fulton is European, aged 28, 174 cm tall, of medium build, with brown, hair. The police are also looking for a Rolleston
Prison inmate, Ross Maxwell Templeton, aged 27, who went missing when going for a job interview in Hornby on May 29. Templeton was sentenced to a year’s jail after being convicted of conspiring to produce
morphine. He is European, of medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair. Rocky Hill, aged. 25, who escaped from the Christchurch police station on May 18, is also still at large.
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Press, 12 June 1986, Page 8
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