Police hunt sex offender who absconded from open prison

Police hunt convicted sex offender serving life sentence who absconded from open prison

  • Gary Butcher, 55, fled HMP North Sea Camp in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday
  • The convicted sex offender is serving a life sentence for aggravated burglary 
  • Lincolnshire Police said that he may have travelled to the Leicestershire area

Police are hunting for a convicted sex offender who has disappeared from an open prison in Lincolnshire.

Gary Butcher, 55, absconded from HMP North Sea Camp in Boston just after 5.30am on Tuesday, police said. 

Butcher, who is serving a life sentence for aggravated burglary, is described as a white male with a stocky build, brown/grey hair and blue eyes.

He is also has a swallow tattoo on his right arm and a ‘Phillip-Trina’ tattoo on his left arm.

Gary Butcher (above), 55, is a convicted sex offender and is serving a life sentence for aggravated burglary

Lincolnshire Police said he may have travelled to the Leicestershire area and have released a mugshot.

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Inspector Paul Coleman, said: ”We are appealing for help to locate Gary Butcher who was reported missing from North Sea Camp this morning.

‘If you have any information to his current whereabouts, please contact us immediately. 

‘If you do see him, please do not approach him and instead, call us on 101 quoting incident 37 of 31st May and if it’s an emergency, dial 999.’

Butcher absconded from HMP North Sea Camp (pictured), an open prison in Boston, Lincolnshire, just after 5.30am, police said

Earlier this year, Paul Robson, 56, fled from the same prison despite being given two life sentences in August 2000 after he broke into a 23-year-old woman’s house in Oxford through a cat flap and sexually assaulted her while holding a knife to her throat.

He was sentenced to a minimum of nine years but has spent 20 years behind bars and only moved to an open prison in February 2021 after five parole hearings. 

Robson was serving a life sentence for attempted rape and indecent assault. 

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