26/11/2013

Police Offer Reward For Capture Of Escaped Killer

A £10,000 reward has been offered in exchange for information leading to the recapture of escaped convicted killer Lerone Boye.

27-year-old Boye was jailed for 28 years for the 2011 stabbing death of a 17-year-old-boy.

He absconded from the John Howard Centre in Homerton in east London on 16 October.

Boye is described as slim, about 5ft 10ins tall with short hair and a goatee beard. He has a distinctive horseshoe shaped scar on his right cheek and a gold tooth in his upper row of teeth.

He was wearing a grey/blue sweatshirt with a grey vest over the top as well as grey jogging bottoms when he was last seen.

People are advised not to approach Boye but to call 999.

(MH/CD)

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