Prison inquiry after murderers break free

The Prison Service was carrying out an investigation into security failings yesterday after one of Britain's worst jail breakouts in recent years.

Two convicted murderers, described by police as "extremely dangerous", were among three inmates to break out of HMP Grendon, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Sunday morning. Raymond Kennedy, 26, and Michael Banks, 36, and burglar Peter Panesar, 34, escaped after cutting a hole in a mesh fence. They then stole a farmer's Isuzu Trooper jeep and drove off.

Banks was recaptured after trying to break into a house in London on Sunday evening. Kennedy and Panesar were caught yesterday afternoon.