A report into a prison break last August makes 23 recommendations to avoid the same thing happening again. The daring escape at the Regina Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatoon, Canada, took place under the noses of 87 prison workers, and was carried out by six high-risk jailbirds who spent four months chipping their way to the outside with a pair of nail clippers – yes, nail clippers – and other improvised tools. CCTV operated in the prison, but not in that area – like, okay…
After removing the grille and back plate from a heating register the sextet of criminals, of which four are alleged murders, set to work on the external brick wall. Working in shifts, with some of the team distracting guards by playing cards whilst others grafted away at the masonry, they eventually broke through to fresh air by slamming a steel shower rod through the crumbling brickwork.
With the sweet scent of freedom on their nostrils the group then scaled a wall with braided blankets and sheets, and clambered over barbed razor wire by throwing winter coats over it first. Cool or what?
Unfortunately – for them, that is – one was recaptured almost immediately (bet he felt a bit of a twat), and the other five were apprehended a few weeks later. . .
