There's a lively discussion on that thread regarding whether the alleged "pipe gun" is actually a gun (the general agreement seems to be "no") and there are man

There's a lively discussion on that thread regarding whether the alleged "pipe gun" is actually a gun (the general agreement seems to be "no") and there are many comments praising his ingenuity. I wanted to check how Mr. Van Allen is doing these days. From what I can gather he escaped an open prison less than a year into his sentence [1] and is mostly known in the media as "man jailed for stashing homemade gun". He was in the list of Sussex's "most wanted" [2] in 2021, but that's about it. I wish someone would write a book about his life, but I guess they would have to find him first and I kinda hope they don't. [1] https://news.sky.com/story/police-hunt-for-prison-escapee-public-warned-not-to-approach-him-12117061 https://news.sky.com/story/police-hunt-for-prison-escapee-pu... [2] https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/sussex-most-wanted-men-women-4852638 https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/sussex-most-wa...