Triple murderer on the run
28/11/2006 15:59  - (SA)  

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Helsinki - A 41-year-old Finnish man, serving life for killing three people in Sweden, has escaped from prison in southern Finland, officials said on Tuesday.

Nikita Joakim Fouganthine, condemned in the 1988 murders, has attempted escape four times before.

In 1994, he fled from prison by taking a teacher hostage but was caught soon afterwards.

Four years ago police in Sweden arrested him when he failed to return to prison from a brief furlough.

Fouganthine, better known as Juha Valjakkala at the time of the murders, has made several unsuccessful appeals for a pardon. However, the Supreme Court ruled in January he could be considered for clemency.

Fouganthine shocked the Nordic countries 18 years ago with the brutal murders in a small, isolated village in northern Sweden where he killed a father, mother and son from the same family for no obvious reason.

Officials said his escape from prison in Hamina, 150km east of Helsinki, was discovered at 07:00.

Police in Finland and neighbouring Sweden were searching for the escaped convict. Finnish prison officials warned that he could behave "unpredictably".

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