The Hanover police are now on the hunt for two of three boys from Clarendon who confessed that they were planning to rob a bank in Old Harbour.

The manhunt comes after they escaped from a place of safety in Hanover where they were being held.

On March 9, the boys, aged 13 and 15, along with another 12-year-old, were arrested by the Old Harbour police after they reportedly confessed to planning a robbery in the town.

Police reports summarise that a resident overheard the boys' plans as they held a conversation at a fast-food restaurant.

It was further reported that the resident witnessed the boys dumping what was later found to be an imitation gun wrapped in a flower pot.

The man accosted the boys and took them to the police station, where they confessed that they had planned to rob the bank.

They were subsequently charged under the Child Care and Protection Act and were taken taken to a place of safety in Hanover, where they reportedly walked off the compound, just three days after being remanded.