Police: Escaped convict is armed, two more arrested

The convict with a life sentence who managed to slip away from police is armed, unlikely to give himself in and has a plan to travel to Colombia via the north, police said on Friday.

Authorities were desperately scrambling to locate 42-year-old convicted double-murderer Theodoros Theofanous, also known in Greek as ‘kommotis’ (hairdresser) after he slipped away from a seven-member guard on Thursday when visiting his family at their home in Choletria village, Paphos.

The ‘prison...