and padlock!

Bolt for freedom and padlock!

A man charged with escaping from custody failed to appear in a PNG court —he escaped from the police taking him to answer the charge. And he added insult to in jury by getting away with the pad lock and key from his cell.

It happened at Lae on the PNG north coast where two men were brought to the district court in a police van. They were to answer charges of having taken part in a mass gaol break earlier in the month.

The men ran for freedom again as police were transferring them to the holding cell at the court. In the scuffle a policeman dropped the padlock and keys which were scooped up by one of the prisoners who hasn’t been seen since.

The other man was recaptured and he received an extra three months gaol for the performance.