Po­lice are search­ing for two men who es­caped cus­tody from the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The men, who were pa­tients in the Foren­sic Ward-27 of the hos­pi­tal, are charged with mur­der and rob­bery with vi­o­lence of­fences.

In­for­ma­tion from the Po­lice Ser­vice and the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty yes­ter­day, stat­ed that at 5.30 am, se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel at the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal were con­duct­ing rou­tine checks when they dis­cov­ered that Ever­son Hazel­wood and Joshua Gar­raway were miss­ing.