Police catch murder suspect after toilet run
Alex Evans - [email protected]
Published: 22 Nov, 2013 CET.
Updated: Fri 22 Nov 2013 11:02 CET
UPDATE: A murder suspect who escaped from a court in north west Germany on Thursday morning by complaining of diarrhea has been caught. He squeezed through the window of the court's toilet sparking a police manhunt.
The 61-year-old had been sentenced to three years in prison for abetting tax evasion by the court in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He is also suspected of of murder and robbery in December 2012, police said in a statement.
But before the judge could deliver his reasons for the tax-dodging sentence, the man asked to go to the toilet and complained of diarrhea, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported.
He then climbed out of the window on the second floor, used scaffolding to get to ground level and ran off, police in Kleve said.
But he was caught on Friday after a petrol station worker recognized him and called the police.
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The 61-year-old had been sentenced to three years in prison for abetting tax evasion by the court in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He is also suspected of of murder and robbery in December 2012, police said in a statement.
But before the judge could deliver his reasons for the tax-dodging sentence, the man asked to go to the toilet and complained of diarrhea, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported.
He then climbed out of the window on the second floor, used scaffolding to get to ground level and ran off, police in Kleve said.
But he was caught on Friday after a petrol station worker recognized him and called the police.
READ MORE: Man 'kills girl he met online in forest'
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