An on-the-run British convict who tormented police on Facebook for four months before being recaptured was sentenced to extra time behind bars on Wednesday for escaping from custody.
Craig “Lazie” Lynch accumulated tens of thousands of Facebook friends and posted a string of defiant status updates and pictures on the internet social-networking site.
Dubbed the “Facebook fugitive” by media, Lynch, whose profile picture showed him raising his middle finger to the camera, was serving seven years for aggravated burglary when he broke out of jail in Suffolk, east England, in September.
But after being recaptured earlier this month, he must serve an extra six months in prison, a judge ruled at high-security Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London.
Police said they could not give details of whether information posted by Lynch on Facebook had helped officers locate him. — AFP