Escapers comforted police dog —counsel
Counsel for two prison escapers said yesterday that the pair found some water for an exhausted police dog, which had been following them, and stayed with it.
Three months were added by Judge Hattaway in the District Court to the existing prison terms being served by the two men, who escaped from a work party at Paparua Prison on November 16. The offence had been admitted by Bruce Franklin Charnley, aged 21, and Martin Robert Judge, aged 22 (Mr D. J. Taffs). The pair ran off at 11.55 a.m. They were apprehended at 1.30 p.m. about
four kilometres away. Charnley said that he wanted to be with his pregnant girlfriend, while Judge said he escaped because he did not like the food in prison. Mr Taffs said the escape was “poorly executed and doomed to failure.”
An “elderly” police dog being used in the hunt for the escapers became separated from its handler. The warm day apparently took its toll on the animal because when it found the pair it virtually collapsed alongside them.
Mr Taffs said the pair found some water and remained with the dog until its handler arrived.
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