Greater Manchester Police is hunting for escaped criminal Neil Brennan, and is warning that he may have taken on the likeness of a gentle hipster to disguise his scoundrel roots.
He's usually seen with a shaved head and wearing the regulation tracksuits that they hand out to criminals when they leave school, but GMP's photo library of the man suggest he might now have a beard, side parting, glasses, a smile and possibly even brown shoes, and could be wafting gently between urban coffee shops in the guise of a nice man who only wants to buy the Coffee of the Week and use a plug socket and the Wi-Fi for three hours while he sniggers at in-jokes on Reddit.
Anyway, it's not really funny because the police say he's dangerous and shouldn't be approached, so their advice is to continue avoiding all men with ginger beards. [Greater Manchester Police via ITV]
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