ESCAPED FROM POLICE VAN

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 3

ESCAPED FROM POLICE VAN

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 28. An 18-year-old youth was recaptured within an hour of his escape at 9.35 a.m. today from the yard at the side of the Auckland Magistrate’s Court.

He is Graham Colin Holloway, who was caught by the police at a house in Herne Bay at 10.27 a.m. Two other prisoners, Graeme Stewart Campbell, aged 18, and Warren Norman Sowman, aged 17, attempted to escape with Holloway. They were being taken from the police van which brought them from gaol to the cells below the Court when they made their break. Two prisoners had walked quietly from the van to the cells when the trio leapt out to try to escape. The van driver. Constable P. Hanna, immediately grabbed one and they fell to the ground struggling. Constable Hanna suffered a grazed face and knee and a gash over his right eye in the light.

Two constables guarding the prisoners caught the second youth. Holloway eluded them, sprinted up the drive between the court and the Auckland Hospital Board building, and disappeared

among the crowd of court witnesses and motorists from the nearby parking building. The other prisoners in the van made no attempt to escape or become involved in the tussle. Police searched Albert Park and nearby streets before Holloway was picked up at Herne Bay. He gave up without a struggle. Holloway was to have been charged with breaking and entering the launch Noelani at Westhaven on April 3.

Campbell was to face one charge of breaking and entering and another of car conversion. Sowman had a charge of breaking and entering against him. The three admitted their escape when they appeared before Mr W. J. Meade, S.M., just before the lunch adjournment today, and were remanded in custody for a week for sentence. Extra police manned the van on its return to Auckland prison.