Facebook Fugitive Caught After 4 Months

[The Streets Don't Love You Back]

Craig "Lazie" Lynch is an escaped British criminal dubbed "the Facebook fugitive" has become an Internet hit, taunting police via the online social networking site and notching up nearly 30,000 "friends" by Thursday.(Suffolk Police/AFP, via newscom.com)

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But not everyone on his fan site was actually a fan. Several admonished him for his exploits and warned others not to support an escaped convict.

Lynch told Channel 5 that he left prison to avoid participating in the illegal black market trade in drugs and alcohol. A father of two, he says he also needed to sort out his business affairs in order to support his children. At one point he said he was planning to turn himself in when he had finished sorting out his affairs.

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"They're not going to catch me," he told Channel 5. "I'm not going to give them the joy of catching me. I'm going to go there and give myself up."

But John O'Connor, a former commander with Scotland Yard, said there is no justification for Lynch's escape and that his antics on Facebook would only get him a harsher sentence. "The fact that he [was] taunting police is really just childish, the only person he is hurting is himself."

Even Lynch seemed to acknowledge that his actions were foolhardy.

"At the end of the day, it's my kids and my cocker spaniel that are going to suffer," he said.

His fan site is no longer accessible. His own profile page was taken down weeks before. For Lynch, life without Facebook may be worse than returning to prison. THINK