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Police are still searching for fugitive prisoner Katrina Epiha, who was in custody at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital last Friday.
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Katrina Epiha, 22, escaped from police custody at Middlemore Hospital on September 11. Source: Breakfast.
Police say they executed several search warrants in Manukau counties overnight.
A woman was arrested and charged with complicity after the fact in connection with Epiha’s escape.
According to the police, the woman has also been charged with illegal possession of a firearm along with three other people.
Another man was arrested for violating his conditions.
All five are expected to appear in Manukau District Court today.
Police say they remain “committed” to finding the 22-year-old a week after she ran away.
Epiha was convicted of fatally stabbing a Christchurch woman and threatening to kill another in August 2017.
Earlier this week it was revealed that she had been handcuffed to one of the two Corrections staff during her visit to the hospital to receive treatment for an injury that could not be done in prison.
She was last seen running towards Gray Avenue in Mangere in the early hours of the morning on the same day as her escape.
