Ex-soldier, 21, escaped from Wandsworth prison on Wednesday where he awaited trial for alleged terrorism and Official Secrets Act offences
The technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, said it isn’t “helpful” to draw a link between over-capacity, understaffing, and this recent prison escape until there has been a “thorough investigation”.
She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme:
We can’t say why this happened until we’ve got the results of that investigation.
I don’t think it’s helpful to get into a hypothetical of what was the cause, or what allowed this individual to evade the system and manage to escape.
