Hospital runaway threat to children

Police hunting a child sex offender who absconded from a mental hospital said yesterday he was still a danger to children. Peter Dossena, 64, was last seen on Friday, when he was left to wander in the grounds of De La Pole Hospital in Hull as part of his rehabilitation.

Dossena, who spent 27 years in Broadmoor, uses the aliases John Wilkinson, Eric Barnes, William Cooke, George Edwards, John Hammond, Paul Ireson and Peter George Rossena.He is white, 6ft tall and slim with a pale complexion and pale blue eyes. He wears glasses and has receding grey hair which is combed forward.