Convicted murder still on the run from police almost two MONTHS later

A wanted convicted murderer is still on the run from police almost two months after they appealed for help to track him down.

Eden Lomax is wanted by officers in relation to criminal damage and a 'serious' assault. In an appeal issued on February 9, police said the 27-year-old is wanted on recall back to prison.

The M.E.N previously revealed he was only recently released from jail after serving a 10-year stint for the murder of Simon Mitchell in 2013. Lomax killed his victim, a complete stranger, with one punch.

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He was just 17 at the time. In an update issued today (March 28), a Greater Manchester Police spokesperson confirmed that Lomax is still wanted - almost two months on from the initial appeal.

Anyone who spots him should call 999. A trial more than a decade ago heard how Lomax, who is from the Farnworth area of Bolton but also has links to Salford, attacked his victim in the street in Bolton town centre on the evening of June 14, 2013.

The victim, 43-year-old Mr Mitchell, had been in low spirits after losing his job as a forklift truck driver and had been given £200 by his brother so he could go out and have a good time on the day he died. After leaving the Balmoral pub in Bradshawgate, Mr Mitchell began chatting to Lomax and his friends in a chance encounter near Bolton Town Hall.

In a tragic twist, he was murdered moments after drunkenly confiding in Lomax that he was having suicidal thoughts after two of his friends had taken their lives. This touched a nerve with Lomax, the trial heard, whose stepfather had taken his own life in 2004 – and he told Mr Mitchell: "If you don’t **** off I’m going to bomb you".