A DANGEROUS prisoner who escaped from custody at Salisbury District Hospital has been jailed for a further two years.

Michel Kisiel, 31, attacked two prison guards and threatened one with a razor blade, forcing him to release his handcuffs while on a hospital visit on May 30 this year.

He went on the run, sparking a police manhunt involving a police helicopter, dog unit and drones.

Members of the public reported seeing him in Nunton the next evening and he was arrested just over 24 hours after his escape.

Kisiel had been serving a jail sentence of more than five years after subjecting a woman and her daughter to terrifying knifepoint ordeal in Luton.

Today a judge at Salisbury Crown Court extended that sentence by two years, after Kisiel admitted one count of escape, two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm (ABH), and one of threatening a prison officer with a blade.

Judge Adam Feast QC said: "This was a pre-planned escape from lawful custody. You armed yourself whilst in prison, engineered a visit to hospital, attacked both guards assigned to look after you, and threatened one of them with that blade you had.

"You then ran off. In my judgement only a sentence of immediate custody, and of some length, is appropriate in this case."

Prosecuting, Colin Meeke described how Kisiel had held the blade to one officer's throat and forced him to unlock the cuffs.

The court was shown clear CCTV footage that captured the dramatic struggle.

Mr Meeke said Kisiel had asked to go to the toilet because he felt sick. Still handcuffed to a nine-foot chain, he produced a jelly baby with a prison-issue razor blade hidden inside.

Once back on the ward he lunged at one guard, Ashley Kennet, and tried to wrap the chain around his neck.

The second guard, Samuel Skeates, pulled Kisiel away, but they fell to the floor surrounded by nurses and hospital staff.

Kisiel punched Skeates and then stood behind him and held the razor to his throat, saying: "I have got a blade. I will cut him. Get the keys."

The judge said: "Unsurprisingly, scared for his life as he was, Mr Skeates unlocked the cuffs from your wrists."

Kisiel fled the hospital and alerts were sent out warning people not to approach him as he was armed and dangerous.

Judge Feast said: "I have no doubt that many local residents upon hearing this were frightened for the safety of themselves and their families."

Despite an extensive search he remained at large until his capture the following evening.

Mr Meeke said the ordeal had left Mr Skeates "extremely shaken".

Defending, Jane Rowley said Kisiel had tried to escape due to problems with other inmates at HMP Erlestoke which made him fear for his safety.

The prosecution accepted that the officers' injuries had been caused in the struggle and not by the blade.

There was no gratuitous violence or use of excessive force, Miss Rowley said, adding that Kisiel had nine "relatively minor" previous convictions.

She said Kisiel worked hard as a builder, earning good money to support his nine-year-old daughter.

Kisiel pleaded guilty to all the charges at the first opportunity, meaning his sentence was reduced by a third.

The judge gave him to two years for escape, one year for threatening with a blade, nine months for the first ABH and six months for the second ABH.

Each sentence will be concurrent, meaning a total of two years to be added to his present jail sentence.