32 year old convicted murderer Oleg Topalov used a spoon to dig
through the ceiling of his prison cell in Russia this week. According to
authorities, Topalov was convicted on charges of murder and illegal
possession of firearms and was being held at Matrosskaya Tishina
detention center. Officials from the Federal Prison Reserve confirmed
that the inmate successfully escaped the maximum security facility early
Tuesday morning.
They believe that Topalov used a spoon to tunnel through the cement
and brick wall surrounding the ventilation shaft in his cell. The
convicted murderer apparently climbed through the resulting hole and
onto the roof above his cell block, where he made his way to the roof of
a nearby building. Oleg escaped by using several bedsheets tied
together to lower himself onto the grounds of the adjacent Gilyarovskogo
psychiatric hospital.
The facility which is about a century old
is dilapidated and according to Kristina Belousova, a representative
with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, the building’s structural
state made Topalov’s spoon prison escape possible.
Because of the state of the building, Topalov had no
difficulty in widening the vent of the airshaft, through which he got to
the prison’s roof, Using sheets tied one to another he managed to go
down the wall, then jump over the fence to run away. Belousova said.
Russian authorities have launched a massive manhunt to locate the
fugitive prisoner and will offer a substantial reward for his capture.
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