Dangerous prisoner, 21, caught by cops following huge manhunt after he escaped hospital when guards ‘made mistake’

A DANGEROUS prisoner who escaped from bungling jail guards on a hospital visit has been caught after a huge police manhunt.

Daniel Boakye – caged for a string of knifepoint robberies – was heading back to custody after being snared by cops at an address in south-east London.

Police also arrested two women aged 20 and 51, a 17-year-old girl and a man aged 30 on suspicion of assisting an offender.

It comes as we can reveal that Boakye, 21 – held at HMP Feltham, west London – escaped just months before he was due to be deported to Ghana.

Government sources told us today his deportation is still being “actively pursued”.

We told yesterday how Boakye was on the run after giving dozy prison officers the slip while under their guard at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth.

Police launched a manhunt for Boakye – said to be a gang member and drill rapper – after he fled in the early hours of yesterday morning.

And we can reveal that Home Office officials and senior Youth Custody Service staff visited Feltham in west London today seeking answers over how he was allowed to go AWOL.

Boakye, of Enfield, north London was jailed for six years and five months in July 2023 over a spate of terrifying knife robberies in the capital that he and three accomplices carried out.

A source told The Sun: “He was due for a move to a Category B prison and then a detention centre before being deported to Ghana.

Boakye went missing after being taken to the hospital under escort after apparently falling ill.

He was one of four then-teenagers jailed in 2023 after stealing £115,000 worth of cryptocurrency in knifepoint robberies across London.