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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Williams

Dad who leapt out of dock and escaped court says it 'was a moment of madness'

A man who leapt out of the dock and went on the run has been given a further sentence.

Nicholas Bunclark was jailed for 16 months on Tuesday, January 3, 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.

However, soon after sentencing remarks from Judge Garrett Byrne on Tuesday, Bunclark vaulted the gate out of the unsecured dock at Liverpool Crown Court as he was being led to the cells. He left the court building and went on the run.

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