A man who leapt the dock and escaped court said he "almost could not believe no one was following him."
Nicholas Bunclark was jailed on Tuesday, 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, of St Oswald's Lane in Netherton, vaulted the gate out of the unsecured dock at Liverpool Crown Court as he was being led to the cells. He then went on the run.
