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| N.H. prison escapees plead guilty |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/08/2004 |
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Two men who were the first to escape from the New Hampshire State Prison secure area in many years pleaded guilty Friday. However, Philip Dick, 24, of Hampton, and Kevin Gil, 32, of Boston, said they would withdraw their pleas if they were not sent to prisons out of state. They said they fear they will be kept in confinement at the New Hampshire prison instead of being allowed out with the general prison population elsewhere. Dick agreed to another four to eight years on his sentence and Gil agreed to another 7 1/2 to 15 years. Gil's sentence was more severe because he was considered more dangerous. Gil was serving 45 years to life for murder and Dick 15 to 30 years for shooting at police during a standoff in May 1999. A third man, Chris McNeil, 36, of Willards, Md., pleaded guilty earlier to escape, and prosecutors said his plea was important to their case against the other two. The men escaped last June 4, and were captured at a Plymouth, Mass., campground the next day, 30 hours later. McNeil, meanwhile, had sent $1,700 and a list of things to do for the escape to Shayne Laslie, 26, of Concord, who had done time with McNeil, Quick said. Laslie was waiting with clothes and a car, and then called someone he knew to provide transportation for the three to the Plymouth campground. But police tracked down Laslie that night at a Salem motel, and as they closed in, he shot himself to death. |
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