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Notorious double killer from Greater Manchester on the loose after escaping from prison
Darren Pilkington has been in and out of prison for the last decade
A double-convicted killer from Wigan is reportedly on the run after escaping from prison for a second time.
Darren Pilkington was jailed for manslaughter after pushing his girlfriend Carly Fairhurst, nineteen, down the stairs during a late-night row at her home in Higher Ince in 2006.
She was left with fatal injuries for twelve hours before he called an ambulance. She never regained consciousness and died a week later.
It was his second manslaughter conviction, having killed thirty-year-old Paul Akister in a pub brawl in 2001.
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Pilkington – who now calls himself Darren Carr – was released ten years into his sentence in 2016, but has been recalled on a number of occasions after breaking rules and breaching his license.
Throughout the last decade, he been in and out of prisons of varying security levels six times, and even spent a brief stint in an open prison, before escaping and going on the run last year,
He was caught as a fugitive five days later.
But now, it has been reported that Pilkington has once again escaped from prison, the identity and location of which has not been revealed.
Carly’s parents Trevor and Sheila Fairhurst were told that Pilkington had applied to the governor to go on escorted day release in the hopes of being granted a temporary licence.
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They were then told he had escaped before he got an answer.
Trevor said on the devastating news: “We don’t know where he is in the country. He could be heading this way – he has before.
“But ultimately it’s the pain of knowing that that cycle of release and recapture is going to continue. Why does he keep putting us through this and not comply?
“Why can’t he get on with his life and let us get on with ours? We just can’t get closure. This has been going on since 2006.”
When Pilkington is eventually captured, he will be moved back into a Category D prison.