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Alfred George Hinds was a British criminal who successfully broke out of three high-security prisons while serving a 12-year prison sentence. Hinds’ first escape was from a Nottingham prison in 1958 where he managed to get through locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall to his freedom. This feat earned him the name ‘Houdini Hinds’ in the media. He traveled throughout Europe during his time on the run, working as a painter-decorator before being apprehended after 248 days of freedom.
Hinds used his re-arrest to his advantage, bringing a lawsuit against the authorities and hence finding a reason to be escorted to the Law Courts. Accomplices supplied Hinds with a padlock and attached screw eyes onto a toilet cubicle so that while being escorted to the toilet, Hinds bundled the two guards into the cubicle and locked them in. Escaping onto Fleet Street, Hinds made for the airport where he was captured five hours later. Hinds’ third and final prison escape came less than a year later when he escaped from Chelmsford Prison. He fled to Ireland where he lived for two years under an assumed name before being stopped driving an unregistered car and rearrested. Following his eventual release from Parkhurst Prison, Hinds became a member of Mensa.
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Alfred George Hinds was a British criminal who successfully broke out of three high-security prisons while serving a 12-year prison sentence. Hinds’ first escape was from a Nottingham prison in 1958 where he managed to get through locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall to his freedom. This feat earned him the name ‘Houdini Hinds’ in the media. He traveled throughout Europe during his time on the run, working as a painter-decorator before being apprehended after 248 days of freedom.
Hinds used his re-arrest to his advantage, bringing a lawsuit against the authorities and hence finding a reason to be escorted to the Law Courts. Accomplices supplied Hinds with a padlock and attached screw eyes onto a toilet cubicle so that while being escorted to the toilet, Hinds bundled the two guards into the cubicle and locked them in. Escaping onto Fleet Street, Hinds made for the airport where he was captured five hours later. Hinds’ third and final prison escape came less than a year later when he escaped from Chelmsford Prison. He fled to Ireland where he lived for two years under an assumed name before being stopped driving an unregistered car and rearrested. Following his eventual release from Parkhurst Prison, Hinds became a member of Mensa.