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Inmate left unsupervised for 52 minutes at high-security SA jail before planned escape: report
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JanJanuary 2021 at 12:28am
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A remand prisoner being housed in a high-security Adelaide jail was left unsupervised in a kitchen for almost an hour when he executed his planned escape last month, a summary report reveals.
Key points:
He used clothing to abseil out an air vent in the kitchen
The SA Government will not release the full report
MPs are demanding answers over a daring escape of a prisoner last month.
Crime by Matt Smith
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Subscriber only Investigations are continuing into the broad daylight escape of prisoner in Adelaide s CBD last month. On the one month anniversary of the incident, in which a prisoner escaped from the Adelaide Remand Centre by bending window louvres in the kitchen area, before scaling down a wall in rope made from pants and a T-shirt, the Opposition has called for answers.
Jason Burdon, 33, was apprehended and arrested, a day and a half after his daring escape, that had occurred just before 10am on December 2 2020.