Pentonville escapee James Whitlock who went on the run after breaking out of jail is arrested by cops
ONE of the two inmates who broke out of Pentonville prison last week has been arrested by police this evening.
Fugitive James Anthony Whitlock, 31, who broke out of Pentonville Prison, has been arrested at an address in Hackney, east London, Metropolitan Police said.
A 48-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were also arrested at the home on suspicion of assisting an offender.
They all remain in custody at a north London police station.
Whitlock escaped from the London prison having been there on remand charged with conspiracy to steal from 19 cash machines across south-east England between last December and August.
Pal Matthew Baker was picked up by cops on Wednesday night.
Matt Baker was in custody awaiting sentencing for attempted murder when he made the “Alcatraz” style escape – with the 28-year-old allegedly found hiding under his sister’s bed at her home in Ilford, north London.
She appeared in court, charged with aiding an offender after her brother arrived at her home in Ilford, 12 miles east of the Pentonville prison, with a broken leg and threatening suicide.
Ms Baker was arrested along with a 33-year-old man, who has been bailed until a date in December.
The cunning pair also left clothing and pillows in their beds to fool the prison guards.
Then they cut through the bars on their window using a diamond-tipped saw smuggled into London’s Pentonville prison from the outside, possibly using a drone.
Seconds later they wriggled through the tiny gap, dropped on to a flat roof and lowered themselves to the ground using “ropes” fashioned from their sheets.
After sprinting to the perimeter, unseen by CCTV operators, they scaled a 25ft wall, almost certainly with the help of pals outside. Last night both remained at large as Scotland Yard launched a huge manhunt.
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Jail staff discovered the 10.40pm breakout only 12 hours later — having failed to spot the men were missing during at least three “heads on beds” checks.
A source said: “Remand prisoners do not have to leave their cells early and the only checks that were made were cursory, through the flap of the cell door.
“Only much later was it noticed the inmates had not emerged from their cells.”
Baker was awaiting sentencing for attempted murder when he broke through cell bars at the north London prison with fellow inmate, James Whitlock, 31.
Baker was convicted on October 4 of the attempted murder of a man at a flat in Dagenham last year and was due to be sentenced on Friday.
The inmates escaped from Pentonville's G Wing - the same wing where inmate Jamal Mahmoud was stabbed to death last month in the troubled category B prison.
Alarms began to ring throughout the prison about midday when prison officers confirmed the inmates were missing.
The audacious jailbreak echoes the notorious 1962 escape from Alcatraz island - made into a film starring Clint Eastwood - in which convicts made dummy heads out of paper and hair from the prison barber.
The maximum security jail off the coast of San Francisco was nicknamed The Rock because it was thought no one could ever escape.
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