Aussie inmate tried dieting to escape
An inmate who used laxatives to shed 31 pounds so he could squeeze through a hole in a prison wall had been frustrated by the indefinite sentence he was serving, a judge said Friday.
Robert Cole, 37, spent three days on the run from police in January after slipping his 123-pound frame through a 15-centimetre wide hole he had chiseled with a butter knife in the widow frame of a hospital wing at Sydney’s Long Bay Jail.
Do you have any idea how small a 15 cm wide hole is?? That man really does need treatment and you have to wonder why he was not receiving it before his escape?
“When he escaped, Cole had been serving an indefinite sentence in the prison hospital after a jury found him not guilty of armed robbery in 2003 on the grounds of mental illness.”
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February 12th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
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