'Real Life Shawshank Redemption' Inmates escape jail by tunnelling through wall behind toilet in Tennessee

Six lags gave themselves the gift of freedom on Christmas Day by breaking out of Cocke County Jail in the US state of Tennessee.

Eric Click, John Mark Speir, Steven Edward Lewis, David Frazier, John Shehee, and Harce Allen all made a dash for freedom in a daring jailbreak being compared to Hollywood movie The Shawshank Redemption.

The prisoners managed to break a toilet away from a wall and tunnel through the concrete behind it, replacing the toilet to hide their escape route.

Rusted screws and recent plumbing repairs to the piping behind it apparently made all of this possible.

“After breaking through the hole, the inmates only had to kick through a tin door and climb a barbed wire fence to make it out of the jail,” Sheriff Armando Fontes told.

An inmate still inside the cell – which holds some 23 people – is then believed to have helped the escapees by pushing the toilet back up against the wall to make it look as if nothing had happened.

But the lags’ freedom was short-lived, with all but one now back in custody.

Two of the inmates, John Mark Speir and Steven Edward Lewis, were captured in separate locations hours after the escape.

Only Frazier still remains on the loose – but cops have warned he is the most dangerous of them all. 

Charged with aggravated robbery and possession of a weapon, police promised to “do everything possible to capture this individual”.

Fontes added: “What we’re basically doing is we’re just following up on every lead and every bit of information, so we’re looking anywhere and everywhere.”

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Source: The Sun , WBIR

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