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| Inmates caught trying to escape |
| By Canadian Press |
| Published: 12/01/2003 |
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Five inmates, including a twice-convicted killer, were caught trying to break out of Brandon Correctional Centre by tunnelling through a wall. "These attempted escapes, this type of attempted escape is rare," said Brian McVicar, superintendent of the western Manitoba facility. "Had they made it good, they would not have been in custody." Last Thursday, officers at the jail discovered a 76-cm by 46-cm hole in the cinder block wall of the B Block cell, McVicar said. The inmates used a metal piece from a door mechanism to slowly pick away at the wall, McVicar said. When they weren't working on it, officials said the escape hatch was covered up and not visible to officers. It's believed the inmates had been working on the hole for at least four days before their plot was foiled. McVicar said the last time a Manitoba inmate tried to flee custody in such Hollywood style was in the early 1980s. There have been several other escape attempts since then, but none "quite this dramatic." Damian James Welsh, 21, Michael Kyle Brown, 19, John William Nault, 23, Sheldon Anthony McKay, 28, and Christopher Lee Nepinak, 20, each have been charged with attempted escape. McKay is waiting to be sentenced after a jury convicted him of manslaughter earlier this year. He was found guilty for his role in the killing of 19-year-old Adrian Bruyere, who was beaten to death in May, 2000. McKay also was convicted of manslaughter in 1993 for cutting the throat of his girlfriend's mother after an argument. |
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