INMATE LEFT PRISON 'TO AVOID DRUGS'

An inmate who walked out of an open prison after being offered heroin
within hours of arriving has been given three months extra in jail.

Wayne Bayliss was sent to North Sea Camp, near Boston, while serving
an eight-month sentence for breaching previous court orders.

Bayliss, who was trying to kick a heroin addiction, found himself
offered both heroin and cannabis, as well as alcohol, on his first day there.

He decided to leave the Category D prison and the following day
simply walked out and headed back to his home town of Sleaford.

He was arrested three days later after police found him at a friend's
house in Jubilee Grove in the town, Lincoln Crown Court was told.

Bayliss was given a three-month jail term, to run consecutively to
his existing term, after admitting escaping from custody on November 14.

Passing sentence, Recorder Christopher Donnellan told him he should
have approached North Sea Camp's governor to ask for a transfer.

Gordon Aspden, in mitigation, said Bayliss, of Sharpes Court,
Sleaford, had managed to stay off drugs while being held at Lincoln Prison.

He told the court: "Within a matter of hours of arriving at North Sea
Camp he had been offered not only any number of drugs but also alcohol.

"He was anxious to avoid the temptation that was ever-present there."