Prisoner escaped since 2008 caught in Imathia

Greek authorities on Wednesday reported the capture of an escaped convict that had been sought since September 2008 in Alexandria, Imathia prefecture.

 

The convict was a 35-year-old Albanian national that had escaped from the Larissa prisons, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for drug-related and other offences. The prison had given him a brief furlough and he had failed to reappear at the appointed time, using it as an opportunity to escape. At the time he was recaptured he was driving a stolen car with fake number plates.