Prisoner cut off part of ear to escape

A PRISONER who escaped from an ambulance after cutting off part of his ear was recaptured at a holiday park in Merseyside yesterday, police said.

Michael O'Donnell, 29, from Salford, Greater Manchester, took a razor to his ear while in his cell on 2 May.

An ambulance was called to take him to hospital, but it was ambushed on the way.