PRISON BREAK
Moment child sex attacker scaled prison walls ‘like Spiderman’ before going on the run
THE moment a convicted sex offender scaled prison walls in just seconds has been caught on video
THE moment a child sex attacker made his escape from prison by scaling walls 'like Spiderman' has been captured on video.
Gintautas Urbonas was less than a year into his 12 year sentence for the attempted rape of a child and child abduction when he made the escape from HMP Peterborough.
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At about 6.05pm on Friday, January 26, the 52-year-old had been working out and was being escorted back to his wing when he ran ahead of a group being and scrambled up the prison wall.
CCTV footage showed him start to scale the prison wall “like Spiderman”, according to a police statement, climbing a closed gated door up a pipe onto a light, over a razor wire onto a satellite dish which had pigeon spikes on it, and then onto the roof of the prison – taking him just 26 seconds.
He then went along the roof, down onto a lower wall and dropped to the ground before running off through the staff car park.
A manhunt was launched by police, lasting two days before Urbonas was captured following an anonymous call to police stating he was at a house in Newark Avenue, Peterborough.
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When he was arrested Urbonas told officers it was him who had contacted them and how, after he had been sentenced, he started to think about escaping.
He got hand towels from the gym and made them into a short rope to help him scale the wall.
He said he didn’t know if he would be successful in escaping but took a chance.
Urbonas told police officers in interview how he tried to get hold of some ‘associates’ but couldn’t, so the next day wanted to go back to prison.
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He said he had no intention of staying out and had no plans to leave the country, he just wanted to “get people interested” in him.
Yesterday, February 27, Urbonas pleaded guilty to escaping lawful custody at Cambridge Crown Court and was sentenced to 16 months in prison, to run consecutively to the third-way mark of his current sentence, meaning it will now be eight years before he will eligible for parole.
Detective Constable Rob Sansom said: “The pressure that was applied through the manhunt for Urbonas left him no choice but to hand himself in."
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