Prisoner escape fears as jail blueprints are leaked online
The Independent|November 24, 2024
Urgent action has been taken to secure prisons in England and Wales after it emerged that blueprints of jails had been leaked online.
KATE DEVLIN
Prisoner escape fears as jail blueprints are leaked online

The Ministry of Justice said immediate steps had been put in place in the wake of the major security breach. There are fears organised crime groups could use the information to plan escapes or smuggle drugs or weapons to prisoners.

Last year, former soldier Daniel Khalife escaped from HMP Wandsworth and spent four days on the run. The 23-year-old slipped out of jail by clinging to the bottom of a food catering truck using a sling made from kitchen trousers, triggering a major manhunt that saw him arrested on a canal towpath next to the Thames.

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