Gerard Tuite, James Moody, Stanley Thompson, Brixton escape

Dec. 12, 1980 - IRA danger man escapes from Prison: 25 year old Gerard Tuite, once described as being high on Scotland Yard's most wanted list, escaped during the early hours of yesterday (Dec. 15) with two others from Brixton Prison, London. The men who escaped with Tuite were Stanley Thompson and James Alfred Moody. They escaped having broken through the walls of their cells in D wing, a high security wing, and then onto a flat roof outside Tuite's cell. They then sprinted across an exercise yard, climbed some scaffolding and then with the aid of a board got across to the 15 foot high wall and dropped down to the other side. Top picture shows the scaffolding behind the 15 foot wall. Below L-R are Gerard Tuite, James Alfred Moody and Stanley Thompson

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