A woman believed to have escaped from London’s Holloway prison turned herself in after a five-day manhunt failed to locate her. She was hiding inside the prison.
When a routine headcount revealed that Aishatu Ishaku was missing, prison officers immediately locked all prisoners in their cells and searched the jail and its surrounds with sniffer dogs and a helicopter. No trace of Ishaku was found.
It was assumed that Ishaku, awaiting trial for fraud, had escaped. Police were notified that a prisoner was on the loose. Then, hungry after five days in hiding without food, Ishaku turned herself in and showed prison authorities where she had been hiding – in the prison’s education block.
She explained to warders that a sniffer dog had located her, but had simply “licked her face and wandered off”.
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