Prisoner escapes using a rope!
A prisoner uses the old ‘knotted sheets’ approach to escape from a prison in New Zealand.
The man tied several sheets together to form a rope which was then thrown from a jail tower and tied so the man was able to climb down.
It was like a scene straight out of Fox’s Prison Break. Aaron Stephen Forden, aged 26, was long gone by the time the prison staff had discovered the rope.
The incredible escape took place in the Mount Eden prison in the country’s biggest city, Auckland.
The Corrections Department manage Warren Cummins said, “the sheets were tied together and he’s used them to get away.” and, “I don’t think it’s a joke at all. I think it’s a 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.”
The Jail is officially listed as a historic site. It was built in 1856.
This is incredible. Most of us thought that Prison Break was purely fiction but this story says otherwise. The man managed to climb down and escape despite being watched by officers in the prison tower.
It seems this story is quite old though as he has since been recaptured. He was recaptured in Papatoetoe (sounds like patato). Police have earlier said Forden faced charges of burglary and aggravated wounding relating to an incident in Blockhouse Bay in January. He was due to appear in court on May 21.
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