A drug dealer who was freed from jail on day release failed to return for nearly six months.
Christopher Cheyney racked up a cocaine debt while serving his sentence in an open prison, and went on the run having apparently been put under pressure to smuggle illicit substances inside in order to pay off these monies.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon that the 36-year-old, of Conleach Road in Speke, had been serving a 54-month stretch for drug offences at HMP Kirkham in Lancashire when he was allowed out on day release on June 27 2022. But Christopher Taylor, prosecuting, described how he failed to return and was not apprehended until he was arrested at an address on Lime Street in Liverpool city centre on January 23 this year.
