Wigan man appears in the dock accused of prison break
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A Wigan man has appeared before justices accused of absconding from jail.
Darren Pilkington, 40, of HMP Garth in Leyland, was in the dock at the borough’s magitrates’ court charged with escaping from custody, namely Kirkham open prison near Preston, on Wednesday May 25.
He was remanded in custody until he next appears before a Bolton Crown Court judge on July 4.
A man and a woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender by police investigating the case have been released under investigation.