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By Lucy Skoulding A man who escaped fromprison and disappeared for two years was finally found in a pub with just a toothbrush and £6 on him. Paul Gallagher had less than a year left to serve behind bars when he escaped from HMP Kirkham in Lancashire, where he had been serving in open prison conditions. The convicted drug dealer then apparently spent the following 22 months “sofa surfing” with friends while at large, before he was finally found and detained again in a student bar. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday that the 39-year-old, of no fixed address but formerly of Fazakerley, had be…