ESCAPE FROM PORIRUA
MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday An inmate of the Porirua mental hospital, John Dillon Corrigan, aged 27, who in 1982 was ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Minister of Justice, escaped from the institution on Sunday. Corrigan was found By a specially-empanelled jury sitting in Palmerston North in July, to be insane and unable to plead to a charge of murdering his parents, John and Ellen Corrigan, at Mangahialxoe, near Eketalnina, on March 28, 1982. The whereabouts of Corrigan are at present not known and a search is in progress. It is understood that Corrigan never caused the slightest trouble during his detention and an official states that there is no cause for alarm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22495, 12 August 1936, Page 12
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