A PRISONER who escaped and was caught in a city chip shop has gone on the run again less than a year later.
Mark Donnison, 43, was given an indeterminate sentence in 2007 for a robbery in Hull.
He escaped from an open prison last year and returned to the city, before being caught in a chip shop in east Hull three weeks later.
Police believe he may now be heading back to the area.
Donnison was warned he was unlikely to face another early release after he admitted to the escape.
He was sent back to a secure jail but, in May, was transferred to another open prison, Hollesley Bay, in Suffolk.
Humberside police and crime commissioner Matthew Grove said the case adds to his concerns about the checks prisoners undergo before they are released.
Mr Grove last week met with the family of murdered Hull pensioner Jim Maloney, after his killer, Christopher Roche, attacked another elderly man a year after being released from his life sentence.
He is planning to write to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling about both cases.
Mr Grove said: "I am concerned that a man who is serving a life sentence for robbery and who escaped from an open prison in August last year has been put back in another prison from which he has been able to escape again.
"This news will rightly raise questions in the minds of residents in Hull and Suffolk as to what processes are followed by the prison service to ensure the risk of prisoners escaping is mitigated. I am sure residents will also be asking themselves why local police resources will once again be spent on recapturing someone who chooses to put two fingers up at the justice system.
"These are questions I will be raising on their behalf with the Justice Secretary, whom I intend to write to concerning this case."
Police said Donnison went missing overnight between Sunday and Monday.
His disappearance went unnoticed until just before 8am yesterday.
Donnison was told he may never be released from prison when he was sentenced for a robbery and causing actual bodily harm in 2007.
The judge ruled he had to spend a minimum of three and a half years behind bars before he could apply for parole.
A spokesman for Suffolk Police said: "Police are asking anyone who may have seen him or anyone with information about where he is now to contact officers.
"You should not approach him or take any further action.
"He has connections to the Bridlington and Hull areas."
Donnison went on the run from North Sea Camp prison, in Lincolnshire, with convicted murderer Gary Lawson on August 10 last year.
Both men headed to Bransholme before Lawson returned to his family home in Grimsby to hide out.
Donnison was arrested on September 7 at a chip shop in Holderness Road after police officers recognised him as someone wanted on prison recall.
Lawson, 30, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Grimsby pensioner Alfred Wilkins, whose home he set fire to in 2001.
Lawson was arrested at his family home.
Both were sentenced to four months concurrent to their life sentences.
Judge Mark Bury told them: "You could have received a much longer sentence but the reality is, here is a serving prisoner serving a life sentence and the real punishment will come because you will not be able to secure any form of early release in the immediate future."
A spokesman for the Prison Service said: "The number of absconds from open prisons in 2011-12 was the lowest level since central records began, and only those risk assessed as suitable for open conditions are placed in open prisons.
"Those who do abscond will be returned to a more secure prison and may face further charges."
Anyone who sees Donnison should call police on 101.
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