Prisoner escapes on hospital visit A violent prisoner has gone on the run after being sprung from the clutches of prison officers in Suffolk. Andrew Farndon, who is serving an indeterminate jail sentence for a brutal hammer attack, made the "planned" escape as he was being escorted to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds for treatment on Wednesday. It is understood the 26-year-old inflicted a serious knife wound on himself in prison, before being taken to the hospital's Accident & Emergency department in a taxi accompanied by two guards. Upon arrival, a waiting gunman threatened the prison officials, before fleeing with Farndon across the car park, Suffolk Police said. His escape is the second in just a week, after an "extremely dangerous" category A prisoner, murder suspect John Anslow, was sprung from a prison van after it left Hewell Prison in Worcestershire.