Robert Stevens, a 58-year-old convicted robber, claimed that he broke out of jail because he was fed up with younger prisoners playing rap music 'day and night', a court heard in the UK.

He had also become irritated with being "constantly pestered" to buy drugs from younger cellmates inside HMP Leyhill minimum security prison in Gloucestershire, UK.

Roberts climbed over a security wall to escape the category D jail before walking several miles to the nearest town.

The fugitive, who had been serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for robbery, spent 20 days at large in various towns in the south west.

Police issued a public appeal to find him and he was finally caught while visiting a Corals bookmakers in Bridport, Dorset, on March 29.