A man who leapt out of the dock and escaped court was jailed this week after handing himself in to police.
Nicholas Bunclark was jailed on January 3 for 16 months after being convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. It followed an attack at a hostel on Leyland Road in Southport on November 19, 2021.
But soon after the judge made his sentencing remarks, Bunclark vaulted the gate out of the unsecured dock at Liverpool Crown Court as he was being led to the cells. The 30-year-old didn't go missing for long as he handed himself into Copy Lane Police Station in Bootle on Wednesday.