Re: Re-enactors upset by ban on taking UK spec deacts to Fra
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:35 pm
Went to visit the family last week and thought I'd ask about the mad axeman episode (I was very young at the time).
Frank Ellis (he changed his name to Mitchell later) escaped from Rampton Hospital with another man in January 1957. The got through three locked doors with keys they'd made from gramophone parts and coat hangers ...
They threatened several people in the village with a shotgun and axe, and beat up my school teacher's husband with an iron bar. Then they stole a motorbike and made off to Newark, where they were arrested 60 hours after escaping.
Mitchell was sent to Dartmoor and was sprung by the Kray twins in 1965. He disappeared, presumed murdered.
Frank Ellis (he changed his name to Mitchell later) escaped from Rampton Hospital with another man in January 1957. The got through three locked doors with keys they'd made from gramophone parts and coat hangers ...
They threatened several people in the village with a shotgun and axe, and beat up my school teacher's husband with an iron bar. Then they stole a motorbike and made off to Newark, where they were arrested 60 hours after escaping.
Mitchell was sent to Dartmoor and was sprung by the Kray twins in 1965. He disappeared, presumed murdered.