Taxi driver led police to fugitive Jane Andrews
Nov 26 2009 By Christina Savvas
THE parents of fugitive former royal aide Jane Andrews asked a taxi driver to take them and their daughter back home before she was recaptured by police, it was reported today.
Cabbie Darren Auckland drove Andrews’ elderly parents and brother from Grimsby to Maidstone, Kent, where he unwittingly picked up the dishevelled convicted murderer from a church graveyard more than 24 hours after she fled a nearby open prison, the report said.
He declined to drive them all back to Lincolnshire, and instead took them to a nearby Premier Inn hotel where Andrews was found by police early yesterday morning.
Mr Auckland, 40, said he felt for the convicted killer’s family – father David, 82, mother June, 79, and brother Jonathan, 44.
“I’m no hero,” he said. “I don’t take any delight in any of this. They (the parents) don’t deserve any grief. They are lovely people. I hope things turn out OK for them.”
Andrews was jailed for life in 2001 after bludgeoning and stabbing her Birmingham businessman boyfriend Tom Cressman to death when he refused to marry her.
