A PRISONER threw himself through a window at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital to escape from police custody, fell three storeys and damaged several ribs, a court heard.
Ian Myles, 24, a carpenter, was at large only minutes before being arrested after a chase in Belle Vue Lane, prosecutor Marianne Bennett told Cardiff crown court.
Myles of Heron Way, Duffryn, Newport, admitted a charge of escaping from custody and was jailed for six months.
He received a further 13 months to run consecutively for the breach of a drugs training and testing order imposed for offences of affray and criminal damage and for the breach of a community rehabilitation order imposed for causing actual bodily harm.
Myles' counsel, James Evans said: "He realises he has reached the end of the line and will go to prison. At the time of the escape he was concerned about a girlfriend and was at large only minutes.
"He has qualifications and has great unfulfilled potential."
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