LITTLEMORE Mental Hospital bosses yesterday agreed to publish a report into the escape by life prisoner Ian McLean.

McLean, sentenced in 2004 after stabbing his former partner Michelle Storer, walked out of the unlocked Lambourn House unit at the hospital earlier this month and fled to Poland.

And today, in a News Analysis feature on pages 8 and 9, the Oxford Mail reveals more details of his ‘escape’, including the fact that he was in Brussels before authorities at Littlemore even knew that he was gone.

McLean, who was able to get a passport after a doctor at Littlemore signed his application form, was even able to call a cab to pick him up from the hospital and drive him to St Pancras Station in London to catch a Eurostar train to the continent.

Oxford Health, with the help of detectives who traced McLean to the seaside resort in Poland where he was arrested, are looking into his escape. He had been moved to Littlemore from prison for mental health treatment.

Initially Oxford Health would only say it would “communicate appropriately” its findings, leading to MPs Nicola Blackwood, Andrew Smith and Sir Tony Baldry, plus Miss Storer, asking for the report to be made public.

Miss Blackwood said: “This is a deeply worrying incident. Local residents are right to demand transparency.”

Carrie-Ann Wade Williams of Oxford Health said the trust would publish its findings.