Machete thug goes on the run after being allowed out of jail to visit mosque

EXCLUSIVE: Machete thug goes on the run after being allowed out of jail to visit mosque accompanied by prison officer but ‘got lost in the crowd’ – just two years into his eight-year sentence

Mohammed Waqas was jailed for eight years in 2019 for attacking a man’s car with a machete and a baseball bat outside a petrol station

A machete thug has gone on the run after ‘getting lost in a crowd’ while on compassionate leave from prison to visit a mosque. 

Mohammed Waqas was jailed for eight years in 2019 for attacking a man’s car with a machete and a baseball bat outside a petrol station.

He was released on temporary license and moved to HMP Sudbury – an open prison in Derbyshire. 

Waqas was allowed out on compassionate leave to attend his mother’s funeral at the Zia-UL-Quran mosque in Saltley, Birmingham, yesterday.

Although he was accompanied by a prison officer, Waqas became ‘lost in a crowd’ and ‘ended up not returning’ to prison at the end of the day.

West Midlands police have laucnhed a man hunt.

More to follow on this breaking news story…