Convict taken to beer hall escapes
A convicted rapist is on the run in the western German city of Cologne after giving his guards the slip during a visit to a beer hall.
|||Berlin - A convicted rapist is on the run in the western German city of Cologne after giving his guards the slip during a visit to a beer hall.
Police say 58-year-old Peter Breidenbach was on a day trip outside prison that included a stop at a brewery near Cologne cathedral Wednesday.
Breidenbach, a diabetic, disappeared after asking to go to the toilet.
Cologne police spokesman Andreas Frische said on Thursday that Breidenbach was an inmate at a prison in the nearby city of Aachen.
German news agency dpa reported that Breidenbach was sentenced to nine years in prison in 1991, but remanded in prison afterward because a court deemed him to be particularly dangerous.
AP