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Sunday, August 30Sunday, August 30A 35-year-old pretrial detainee escaped from Duisburg-Hamborn prison in western Germany early Sunday, scaling the building’s facade and fleeing across the roof, authorities said. The man, a Serbian national held since Feb. 10 on theft charges, was sentenced in late May to six years for two residential burglaries involving jewelry and over €200,000 in cash, though the verdict is not yet final, according to the North Rhine-Westphalia Justice Ministry .
Investigators believe the detainee sawed through a bar on his third-floor cell window over an extended period, then used his cell table as a lever to force open a secondary security grille before squeezing through the gap. He climbed the inner courtyard facade to the roof and descended the outer wall by unknown means, the ministry spokesman said. A concealed compartment under the cell’s linoleum floor, discovered after the escape, had gone undetected during inspections, though no tools were found inside .
The man remains at large as of Sunday afternoon, with police issuing a public appeal for information. He is described as 1.75 meters tall, slim, with a distinctive tattoo of a woman’s head on his right upper arm. Authorities noted he had previously used false identities. Justice Minister Benjamin Limbach called the escape “absolutely unacceptable” and vowed a full investigation into the security breach .
Meanwhile, in the U.K., Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced measures to ease prison overcrowding in England and Wales, where facilities are at 97% capacity with nearly 90,000 inmates. Burnham said foreign nationals would be deported early, and prisoners serving indefinite sentences for public protection (IPP) would be released, ending a policy critics call unjust. He also excluded murderers, manslaughter convicts, and those jailed for causing death by dangerous driving from early release programs, reversing a Conservative-era rule that allowed some offenders to leave after serving half their sentences .
The IPP sentence, abolished in 2012 but not retroactively, has left 856 people incarcerated beyond their minimum terms, with 1,415 others recalled after release, according to Ministry of Justice data. Campaigners welcomed Burnham’s pledge to end the regime. Marc Conway, a former IPP prisoner and leader of the Ungripp campaign group, called it “a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for” .
Burnham’s adjustments follow public backlash over the potential early release of two men convicted of manslaughter in the killing of a police officer. The Labour government had previously exempted sex offenders from early release and now extends that to violent crimes .
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