More than 200 patients have escaped from the same mental health unit which saw murderer Lerone Boye abscond last October, shock figures reveal.

Data obtained through a freedom of information (FOI) request show 211 individuals under supervision at the John Howard Centre in Kenworthy Road, Homerton, have gone absent without leave since 2001. They include murderers, sex offenders and kidnappers.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.