1.   Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself.

2.   And police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself.

3.   That detail, they say, persuaded the men to pistol-whip and then stab Gross to death.

4.   Four prisoners managed to escape but two were held at gunpoint until police finally persuaded the man to surrender.

5.   The standoff ended when police persuaded the man, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, to give himself up, police chief Hasan Ozdemir said.

6.   Meanwhile Energy Minister Yuri Shafranik, trying to persuade the men back to work, promised reforms in depth in the energy sector.