Urgent manhunt for heavily tattooed prison inmate who escaped on a tractor two days ago
Michael Graeme Rennie, 43, was last seen using the machinery while working at Lotus Glen Low Custody Correctional Centre in far north Queensland.
Rennie likely left the farm on a red tractor on Sunday morning, Detective Inspector Jason Chetham said.
'I haven't heard that one before,' he told reporters on Monday.
'There have obviously been prisoners abscond from the corrections centre up there in the past but I don't think anyone's left on a tractor.'
Police are on the lookout for the heavily tattooed Rennie who is serving more than six years for motor vehicle, weapon, drug and other offences including serious assault, theft and burglary.
Police have released a photo of Rennie and the tractor he was using when he escaped the Atherton Tablelands prison farm near Cairns on Sunday.
'The Tablelands is an agricultural centre so tractors on the road I don't think are something that would turn a lot of heads, but we're keen to find it anyway,' Det Insp Chetham said.
Rennie is described as Caucasian and 174cm tall, with blue eyes and fair hair.
He has multiple tattoos across his body including a gun on his left shoulder, a demon holding a skull with horns on his left arm, a full sleeve on his right arm.
Rennie also has multiple dog bites and scars on his left arm, police said.
He was from the state's far north and there had been a 'number of sightings' of the tractor, Det Insp Chetham said.
'We don't have specific concerns about what he might do in the community ... but we certainly ask people not to approach him and to call us immediately if they have any information,' he said.
A 28-year-old man serving two years for break-and-enter offences escaped from the prison farm in February 2023, and was arrested three days later.
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