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Reports of attempted escape at HMP Dodds

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Reports have reached Nation News that Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds is on lockdown after a prisoner who was on remand was shot during an attempted escape.

Sources said that the prisoner was being escorted on the prison compound by a female prison officer when he pulled away from her and refused orders to stop and surrender.

Reports are that he was then shot. The injury is reportedly not life threatening. (Nation News)

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