Danger patient flees guards

Police are today hunting an "extremely unpredictable" mental patient who gave his guards the slip.

Heavily scarred David White, 29, should not be approached, they say. He is regarded as a danger to himself and others.

Mr White, who is normally resident at a secure hospital in Enfield, is understood to have a history of selfharm and does not have access to his medication.

He is of large build and his hair is plaited. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt and beige t rousers when he escaped during an outpatient appointment at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead at about

2.30pm on Wednesday.

Mr White, a patient at Camelot 2, a mental health unit at Chase Farm Hospital, was last seen later that day in Tottenham where he has relatives.