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| Escaped murder suspect captured | |
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| Police have arrested an escaped murder suspect who fled Springfield Hospital in southwest London on Tuesday evening. | Police have arrested an escaped murder suspect who fled Springfield Hospital in southwest London on Tuesday evening. |
| John Claydon, 28, was arrested by Metropolitan Police on Hampton Road in Twickenham. | John Claydon, 28, was arrested by Metropolitan Police on Hampton Road in Twickenham. |
| Mr Claydon was undergoing a psychiatric assessment in the hospital's mental unit when he escaped along with another suspect, 44-year-old John Slavin. | |
| Mr Slavin remains at large, police say. Hospital officials say the two men had outside help with their escape. | Mr Slavin remains at large, police say. Hospital officials say the two men had outside help with their escape. |
| Mr Claydon is awaiting trial for the murder of Ben Foster, 22, in Bath in April. | |
| Previous escapes | |
| Mr Slavin is 6ft 3in (1.97m) of thin build with a goatee beard. He was wearing a black jumper, black coat, blue jeans and a black beanie hat when he escaped. | |
| Police say he is from Bristol, but is also known to frequent Aberdeen. | |
| The hospital, part of the South West London and St George's NHS Trust, has been at the centre of controversy over previous escapes. | |
| The institution was criticised after one of its patients, John Barrett, killed a cyclist in Richmond Park in September 2004. | |
| The paranoid schizophrenic stabbed retired banker Denis Finnegan, 50, after walking out of the hospital grounds. |