"By June 26 (2019) Brian McBride had taken a taxi to Skegness where Angela Pauley lived," Mr Thatcher said. "He disappeared within an hour," Mr Thatcher added.Īt the same time, prison officers were on their way to collect McBride and return him to closed conditions at Lincoln Prison after a review meeting that morning was told of concerns about his contact with two vulnerable women at the church.Ĭell site evidence also showed that Pauley had travelled more than 40 miles to Scunthorpe a few days before the escape when McBride was granted four days overnight leave at a hostel in the town. However, Mr Thatcher said it was known that Pauley had a 15-minute telephone conversation with McBride on the morning he went missing from his six-day-a-week work placement at the Centenary Methodist Church in Boston. "Quite what they were talking about is not clear. "The voice calls by phone between Angela Pauley and Brian McBride were in excess of six hours and ten minutes," Mr Thatcher added. Mr Thatcher said the contact between them began as soon as McBride got his legitimate prison phone on March 1, 2019.
Pauley also logged McBride as 'The man with a van.' They were certainly extremely close."Īll but three of the messages between Pauley and McBride were deleted, Mr Thatcher said.īut those that remained showed they were using the false names of 'Eric and Maggie' to cover their tracks. Whether it was eventually a sexual relationship is not clear. "How far it actually went may be difficult to discern. "It was a personal relationship," explained Mr Thatcher. Richard Goodwin, a prison officer, has been cleared of 'tipping off' McBride about his move to a tougher jail. His disappearance sparked a manhunt from Lincolnshire Police and McBride spent two days at large before officers found him over 35 miles away in a car being driven by Pauley in the Lincolnshire seaside resort of Mablethorpe.īrian McBride, pictured, was serving time in open jail, North Sea Camp near Boston when he fled his work placement.
McBride was on his regular work placement at the Centenary Methodist Church in Boston when he went missing on June 25, 2019.
McBride, who has spent more than two decades behind bars, achieved notoriety in 2012 after a prison nurse was jailed for having sex with him while he was serving his life sentence at high security Wakefield Prison.īy 2019 McBride, who was given his life sentence in 1997, was an inmate at the lower category North Sea Camp open prison, near Boston. The pair had previously met up in secret during a period of overnight leave granted to McBride, and used the false names 'Eric and Maggie' to hide their contact together, a court heard.Īnalysis of Pauley's internet history revealed she had searched for reports of his escape and looked up 'cottage' accommodation for two people. He was found in her car after spending two days at large. A prison worker who had a personal relationship with a notorious lifer and met up with him in Scunthorpe before he went on the run is now serving time behind bars.Īngela Pauley, 48, admitted having an inappropriate relationship with dangerous inmate Brian McBride, 54.