Convicted murderer has now been on the run from police for TWO WEEKS

A wanted convicted murderer has now been on the run from police for at least two weeks.

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 Manchester Evening News previously revealed he was only recently released from jail after serving a 10-year stint for the murder of Simon Mitchell in 2013. Lomax was just aged just 17 when he killed his victim, a complete stranger, with one punch.

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In an update issued today (February 23), a GMP spokesperson said Lomax, from the Farnworth area of Bolton, is still wanted. Anyone who spots him should call 999.

A trial more than a decade ago heard how Lomax 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". Mr Mitchell then asked: "What's a bomb?".

Lomax then swung his hand back and punched him. As the victim lay dying on the ground from a head injury, Lomax