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Prisons are supposed to be among the most secure places on earth with high-security walls, bars and fences meant to keep inmates locked in and under duress for the totality of their sentence.
But, as terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife, 22, proved, it is possible to escape, after he absconded from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday morning (September 6).
And as if from a Hollywood movie storyline, the former soldier slipped out of a kitchen in the prison and strapped himself to the underside of a food delivery van as it drove him to freedom.
But there are even crazier ways prisoners have escaped the nick over the years, including by using helicopters, food, yoga and women’s clothes.
The escape from Alcatraz
One of the most famous jail breaks in history saw three prisoners escape the maximum-security prison Alcatraz on June 11 1962.
The institution, based on an island off the coast of San Francisco in the US, had been dubbed the “ultimate maximum security prison”.
But its reputation was left shattered after brothers John and Clarence Anglin, along with Frank Lee Morris, escaped by digging a tunnel through a concrete wall with sharpened spoons.
They left paper mache dummies in their beds and floated away on a raft made from more than 50 stolen raincoats, wi
Federal officials say they drowned – but their bodies have never been found, sparking suspicions they survived.
Their tale was turned into the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood.
The nectarine ‘grenades’
Michel Vaujour was serving a term for attempted murder and armed robbery in Paris, France when his wife helped him break free using fruit.
He painted nectarines to look like grenades, which he used to force his way onto the prison’s roof.
His wife Nadine Vaujour picked him up from there in a helicopter and landed in a football field, which they quickly drove away from.
But she was caught and arrested in France, while he was shot during a failed bank robbery – although he survived.
The yoga master
Convicted robber and yoga master Choi Gab-bok managed to slip out of a food slot in his prison cell in Daegu, South Korea in 2012.
He rubbed ointment over himself to slide through the slot, which was just 18inches wide and 6inches tall and was dubbed the Korean Houdini.
The convict, who measured 5ft5 and weighed 8st, was caught six days later hiding in a cardboard crate, according to the Korea Times.
El Chapo’s tunnel
Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, managed to break free from behind bars twice.
His first took place in 2001, when he was smuggled out of a Mexican top-security jail in a laundry cart after bribing guards.
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