http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/10348632.stm
From within the prison, convicted murderer Brian Lawrence, age 67, planned a sophisticated escape using a helicopter. Using lemon juice as invisible ink and hidden codes in Sudoku puzzles he communicated with his accomplices. The plan was to land a helicopter in the courtyard, and use the yearly Isle of Wight Festival as a cover. However, his plans were unfolded when prison guards found a suspicious sentence in one of his letters. This lead to further investigation, and the guards eventually found the hidden writing on the paper. The man was sentenced to minimally 21 years in prison, after murdering one person, and planning another two.
These adventurous stories always immediately remind me of films as ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘Alcatraz’. Indeed the fantastic idea to use cliché methods like lemon juice is obviously inspired by Hollywood. For some reason, these brave attempts at escaping, using ingenious ways always leads me to sympathise with the prisoners. This is with no doubt fuelled by such earlier mentioned romanticised films. Of course, this man is still a convicted murderer, but it would be amazing if he would be able to outsmart the prison guards.
Of course you technically should not see this as funny, because it might lead to a murderer escaping prison. Nevertheless I think this was quite a smart action and yes it does remind me of movies. It is quite a cliché action, but it was quite clever. Some time ago there was also something in the news about a man who tried to escape prison by cutting in his ear. Anyhow, funny action, but I’m glad they caught him, because he is a dangerous murderer.
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