A Moment In Crime: Phillip John Smith the murderer, the great escape and the international manhunt Last Minute Instant News
Alan Hall was convicted of murder in 1986 and spent 19 years in prison for the crime. When Phillip John Smith left a Waikato prison on approved temporary leave in 2014 no one suspected that within days he would be leading authorities on an international man hunt. Detectives also investigated the death of a woman who had been a colleague of Smith at the Rainbow. Patricia Lynott, a divorced mother of two from Ireland who had moved to Birmingham, had been found dead in her flat in October 2000. Police had not treated the death as suspicious, but after they discovered her connection to Smith, her body was exhumed for a second post mortem. Each month she'll take you inside some of our most infamous incidents, notorious offenders and behind the scenes of high profile trials and events to show you what’s really happening in your backyard. Mr. Smith, who lived in Manhattan, was vice chairman of the Actors Fund and a trustee of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In 2011, he received a T...