Convict digs her way out of Dutch prison with a spoon
A violent criminal used a spoon to dig her way out of a Dutch prison, officials said on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old woman, held for an unspecified "violent crime", fled on Saturday night through a tunnel she had dug with a spoon, Wim de Bruin, a prosecution spokesman, told AFP.
The tunnel linked the inside of the prison in Breda, in the southern Netherlands, to the outside world, he said, without specifying if it started in the woman's cell.
Jochgem van Opstal, a spokesman for the justice ministry, would not say what sentence the woman was serving or for what specific crime. She was still on the run on Tuesday.
She would have had a job in this country because prisoners are only allowed plastic cutlery!
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Have they stopped issuing the metal cutlery, the knife with the little blade, now then?
ReplyDeleteanonymous: Yes. I used to use it as a screw driver. And, it was handy for just the purpose the Dutch woman used the spoon for.
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