NSW: Prisoner seen running from jail

AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-2006
NSW: Prisoner seen running from jail

SYDNEY, Feb 18 AAP - Staff at Sydney's Long Bay jail didn't know a prisoner had escaped
today until a motorist called police about seeing a man in green running near the prison.

Andrew Tyrrell, 54, escaped from the prison in Sydney's south-east this afternoon.

He had been serving time for driving and theft offences.

Corrective Services were alerted to the break-out about 3.20pm (AEDT) when a motorist
contacted police after seeing a man in green running along a road near the jail.

Staff discovered Tyrrell was missing when a muster was done 10 minutes later.

A Corrective Services spokeswoman said Tyrrell was a minimum security prisoner and
not considered dangerous.

It was not yet clear how he escaped.

Tyrrell's was the fourth escape from a NSW prison this year.

In mid-January, Silverwater jail inmates Todd Ellis and Todd Carr scaled a fence and
broke out of the minimum security prison.

Both have been recaptured.

Two weeks later, dangerous prisoner Robert Cole slipped through the bars of his Long
Bay cell after going on a crash diet. He was recaptured three days later.

Tyrrell is described as having brown hair, blue eyes, 180cm tall and weighing 85kg.

He has a tattoo of a woman and a snake on his right arm and a peacock and a swallow on his right.

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