A CRACK addict who escaped her probation officer in a Lewisham toilet has been recaptured.
The woman, who is serving five-and-a-half years for theft, was on a visit to the capital when she slipped her minder's grasp. She is understood to have crawled through a window in the toilets of the Riverdale Shopping Centre, in Lewisham, on October 11.
While on the run, police suspect she was responsible for two thefts from the bedsides of terminally ill patients at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
The 38-year-old, who is at Drake's Hall prison, in Staffordshire, for theft, was recaptured on November 9 by police.
The convict was on her way back from a drug rehabilitation unit when she made her bid for freedom.
December 6, 2001 9:57
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