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Police hunt for danger man, 75

BY ANDY GREENWOOD Chief Reporter
A paedophile who has spent the last 47 years in custody has gone on the run for the third time. Convicted child sex offender David Marker, 75, vanished from a hospital unit in Taunton. He has been detained since 1965 after committing an indecent assault on a seven-yearold girl in Plymouth. Marker, a former engine fitter, was sent to the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital for an indefinite period after the judge described him as a sick man. Yesterday Avon and Somerset Police appealed to the public to help track down Marker, who escaped from the unit on Monday morning. Officers believe he may be in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, following a sighting. Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Papucka said: David Marker is considered a risk due to his previous offending history. If you see David Marker dial 999 imme-

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Barbaric stallion killer condemned

BY LYN BARTON
A knife attacker believed to have drugged then brutally mutilated a stallion has been branded sick and barbaric by its owner and legions of animal lovers across the country . The two-year-old Fresian called Eric died following the horrific assault. The stallions owner, Dawn Jewell, who runs Tretheague Stud at Stithians, near Falmouth, said she was devastated by the mindless attack. I have never seen anything like it in my life and never want to again, she said. Mrs Jewell, 27, who has owned Eric since he was a foal,

Former Broadmoor patient on the run

diately so that he can be returned to the facility as soon as possible. Marker, who suffered a brain injury as a youth, was 28 when he pleaded guilty to attacking the girl. At Plymouth Quarter Sessions, in April 1965, he was committed to Broadmoor

I dont get why they would do this to a harmless animal

Dawn Jewell, horse owner
said she found his lifeless body in a field on her 100 acre farm on Monday . I have my mare and foal in the field as well, she said. They were running round not acting like themselves. Walking into the field I saw him flat out. That was sad enough in itself and then obviously walking up closer and seeing his injuries sick. She added: I dont think its really sunk in. I could handle it if [the attacker] was an animal but for a person to do this, its just not right. I just dont get why they would do it to an animal which is harmless. The mother-of-three said she was at a loss to explain how anyone could inflict such
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Police appealed to the public to help track down Convicted child sex offender David Marker
without limit of time. An appeal against his sentence was dismissed by the then Court of Criminal Appeal seven months later. He has remained in custody ever since, but has escaped twice before. In 1997 he absconded from a secure hospital in York and was on the run for 10 days, hiding out in a town 30 miles away. He was able to create a

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Dawn Jewells stallion, Eric, before he was killed and mutilated in his field

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