At the end of a 10-day international trade junket that produced no new jobs for Massachusetts but saw a series of critical events at home, globetrotting Gov. Deval Patrick finally touched down in Boston . . . and ducked out a side door, dodging the press on his arrival late last night at Logan International Airport.

Passengers from British Airways Flight 293 reported to the waiting press scrum that the jetsetting chief executive hoofed it out a side door with several other people after collecting his baggage, avoiding the arrival area in Logan’s Termnal E where passengers normally embrace friends and relatives. A gaggle of news crews eager to ask the governor about his trip were left with only ordinary travelers to interview.

Patrick, traveling with a group of Massachusetts state officials, business leaders and lobbyists, reported setting up cooperation deals with scientific research organizations in Israel and Britain, but no headline-grabbing, job-creating economic agreements.

Instead, Patrick reportedly was stunned and surprised to learn in London that back home, Fidelity Investments had shipped 1,100 jobs out of state. Like the driving public, Patrick also was informed just this week that hundreds of corroded Big Dig tunnel light fixtures were in danger of falling — a closely guarded secret the transportation secretary apologized to Patrick for failing to report over the last five weeks. And Wednesday night, State police announced that a Level 3 sex offender was on the run — five days after the repeat rapist bolted, but less than an hour before news of his capture was announced. Meanwhile, House Speaker Robert DeLeo indicated he wants to put off action on Patrick’s health care reform proposal.

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