Daniel Gee was blissfully unaware as he queued up to purchase a sandwich that he would soon find himself in the back of a police vehicle.
On Tuesday (June 25), the former Everton gangster was found in the New Springs area of Wigan. Notorious for transforming his neighbourhood into a round-the-clock drug market, Gee had escaped from Kirklevington Grange Prison in North Yorkshire on 27 May.
An eyewitness, who wished to remain unnamed, described the scene as officers swooped in on the normally tranquil council estate.
He recounted how Gee was actually buying a sandwich at an off-licence next to the Kirkless Hall Inn pub when he was apprehended and mentioned seeing him around the locality several times over the past week, reports the Liverpool Echo. READ MORE: Manchester Airport flights cancelled as Aer Lingus pilots begin industrial action He said: "Yesterday he was buying a sandwich, he was chatting away then next minute the police came from nowhere.
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