Police warning as rapist who vanished from prison is still on the run two months later

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rapist who vanished from custody is still at large two months later and being hunted by police. Let out on day release on June 1, Sean Phipps was last seen in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire area and is now thought to be living “off-grid”.The 51-year-old has been described as 6ft 2ins tall and is meant to be behind bars at HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire.READ MORE: Woman plummets to her death after 'slipping from rollercoaster seat' 26ft in the airHaving previously gone by the surnames Cawthray, Goldthorpe and Perry, police have warned the public not to go near him and instead dial 999.Although police think it is likely that he is around the area he was last seen, it hasn’t been ruled out that Phipps could now be anywhere in the UK.Police are now issuing a fresh push to try and find the missing convict, LeicestershireLive reports.

He was jailed following the 2002 kidnapping of a Leeds schoolgirl who he grabbed from a bus stop, dragged to a brook through an alley by the hair and covered her mouth to muffle her cries, according to the Sun.

It was only thanks to the actions of a brave lad nearby who went and fetched his grandfather for help that Phipps was stopped.Prior to his current sentence, he had been caged two more times for rape.In 1993, he attacked a 20-year-old woman while he studied art at De Montford University in Leicester.