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Escaping prisoner sticks to classics

Red-faced prison bosses in New Zealand are hunting an inmate who escaped using a classic movie technique. Aaron Stephen Forden climbed down a rope made of knotted together bed sheets which had been dangled from a jail tower. By the time staff discovered the plot, the 26-year-old was long gone. Forden apparently climbed down the prison tower within clear view of a guards’ watch tower but under the cover of darkness.

Corrections Department manager Warren Cummins said the sheets were “tied together and he’s used them to get away”. “I don’t think it’s a joke at all. I think it’s very serious and we’ll want to have a look at how he managed that and … do everything we can to stop it in future.”

We think that would be a good idea, Mr Cummins.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .