Nagib El Hadi Mezoughi, a 30-year-old Libyan prison inmate, escaped from St Luke's Hospital yesterday morning, the police said.

El Mezoughi, who was in hospital for a check-up and was being escorted by two policeman, managed to escape through a window on the fourth floor.

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