Murder suspect let out of Maze
NZPA-PA Belfast A Government investigation was launched yesterday into how a convicted I.R.A. terrorist facing a murder charge was let out of the Maze Prison, near Belfast, and promptly disappeared.
Police on both sides of the Irish border are hunting for Patrick Mclntyre, aged 28, who failed to return to the jail after 48 hours leave.
Mclntyre was nearing the end of a 15-year sentence for the attempted murder of an Ulster Defence Force soldier and was entitled to pre-release
home leave. He was one of the 38 men who took part in the I.R.A. escape from the Maze in 1983, and was awaiting trial on charges connected with the breakout, including the murder of a prison officer. Mclntyre was recaptured after a siege at a house in Castlewellan, County Down, three days after he broke out. The Northern Ireland Office said it was a longestablished practice for men nearing the end of a sentence to be given a short period of “terminal home leave.”
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