Jail break by blind amputee
NZPA-AP Georgia A legally blind inmate with an artificial leg broke out of a state prison by scaling a 10m high fence, but he was recaptured just yards from the institution. Daniel Sargent, aged 27, who also is a diabetic, was caught in a wood 36m from the Men’s Correctional Institution at Hardwick, said a spokesman for the department of offender rehabilitation, Mr David Jordan. “Sargent is serving 18 years for armed robbery. He broke a window in the prison hobby shop and crawled through, then scaled the fence,” Mr Jordan said. “He was missed at the 10 p.m. bed check.” “He was just waiting for his chance,” the prison warden, Mr Elie Jones, said. Sargent, whose leg had been amputated at the thigh, was fitted with a new artificial leg recently, a department official said.
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