| Case | Offence | Plea | Time at Large | Sentence | Appeal | Record | Facts |
Prasad
NSW CCA
1.9.1993 | Escape | PG | 3 days | MT 2y
AT 14m | AD. |  | Escaped from team working outside gaol - did not like gaol. |
Carrion
(1993) 69 A Crim R 230 | Escape | | 35 days | FT 12m | AD | Serving time for assault and armed robbery | During escape committed further serious offences in South Australia. |
Young
(27)
NSW CCA
27.10.1993 | Escape | | 7 days | MT 6m
AT 2m | AA
MT 4m
AT 4m | Escalating record involving property and drug related offences. | Female - Returned to de facto and three children - arrested after mother informed police - escaped because of psychological effects of separation from baby.
Fresh psychological evidence. |
Sanderson
(26)
NSW CCA
23.11.1993 | Escape | | 1 week | MT 9m
AT 12m | AA
MT 25w
AT 15m 1w | Serving time for dishonesty offences | Female - dallied on way to work release - panicked on arrival and escaped - no pre-meditation - no further offences. |
Henderson
(23)
NSW CCA
15.12.1993 | Escape | PG | 1 month | MT 12m
AT 4m | AD | Lengthy record | No violence associated with escape and no further offences – arrested by police during RBT - escaped because of threats to life upon arriving at prison (mistaken identity) |
Munday
NSW CCA
2.8.1995 | Escape | PG | four hours | MT 6m
AT 6m | AA
MT 2m
AT 10m | Serving time for two AR and LMV | Climbed fence at Kirkconnell and found four hours later by warders - returned without protest - no reason for escape, but depressed. |
Sinnett
NSW CCA
27.11.1995 | Escape | PG | | MT 1y 3m
AT 9m | AA
MT 10m
AT 1y 2m | | Reasons for escape were the ‘very real pressures’ on prisoner. |
Sammak
NSW CCA
2.9.1996 | Escape | | 1 year | MT 18m
AT 12m | AA
MT 12m
AT 6m | Long record. | Escaped while working as a sweeper outside MTC - prisoner had been threatened. |
Ertl
(29)
NSW CCA
7.5.1997 | Escape | PG | 4 months | MT 12m
AT 12m | AD | robbery | Female - climbed over wall at Norma Parker Centre - unpremeditated - no offences committed whilst at large.
Sexually abused by stepfather, history of drug and alcohol abuse. |
Downes
(33)
NSW CCA
7.11.1997 | Escape | PG | 1 month | MT 2y
AT 2y | AA
MT 1y
AT 2y. | Dishonesty, driving | Over fence at Silverwater - caught by police - escaped for “personal reasons” and “to clear my head.” |
Aslett
(27)
NSW CCA
16.10.1998 | Escape | PG | very short time | FT 3m | AD | prior conviction for escape | Escaped from toilet at hospital wearing only underpants and bandage - apprehended short time later in car park area - escape was part of suicide bid - seeking to be shot by officers.
Contrition, psychiatric disorder. |
Ravet
(26)
NSW CCA [63]
10.3.1999 | Escape | PG | Minutes | FT 6m | AA
FT 4m 2w. | multiple stealing, BES, assault, GIC, breach parole. | During conveyance from court to gaol, opened police van door while stopped and ran - captured shortly thereafter, having injured foot and back as was still in handcuffs – no planning - able to open door by pushing it - under influence of medication taken for drug addiction
Erroneously sentenced on basis he manipulated door lock |
Attie
(26)
NSW CCA [70]
17.3.2000 | Escape | | 23 days | MT 5m
AT 8m | AA
3y GBB | | Escaped from minimum security gaol while collecting branches for aviary.
Exceptional case - suffering psychological distress after witnessing massacre in Lebanon - very bad experience in gaol - wrongly labelled informer by prison authorities and subjected to threats and violence - received no assistance from authorities and forced into segregation. |
Regina
(51)
NSW CCA [100]
20.3.2000 | Escape | PG | more than 3y 6m | MT 2y
AT 1y | AD | appalling record | Walked out of minimum security centre - while at large served term of imprisonment in Northern Territory - not extradited to NSW until three years later.
Amount of time at large makes escape a remarkable one - aggravating feature. |
Riddell
NSW CCA [144]
10.4.2000 | Escape | PG | very short time | MT 5m
AT 4m | AA
9m
NPP 5m | | Spur of the moment - no premeditation - no aggravating features - cry for help in relation to suicidal wife - escaped at place liable to be seen - injured self on wire and found walking along road making no attempt to avoid capture. |
Butler
(20)
NSW CCA [525]
4.12.2000 | Attempt escape | PG | | MT 12m
AT 6m | AA
18m
NPP 9m | lengthy record | Female - climbed two fences abandoning attempt after recognising attempt would fail.
Mother of 4y child – immature - drug addiction - some evidence of rehabilitation. |
Friedemann
(63)
NSW CCA [516]
6.12.2000 | Escape | | | FT 12m | AA
FT 6m | serving sentence for drug offences | Escaped from minimum security centre and went to Victoria to obtain extensive medical treatment - felt receiving insufficient treatment in custody.
Committed further offences - suffering serious medical condition. |
Stokes
(42)
NSW CCA [82]
1.3.2001 | Escape | PG | nearly 12 months | 3y 1d
NPP 1y | AA
2y
NPP 8m | serving lengthy sentence for violence | Escaped from minimum security using gardening tools - wife waiting in car - degree of planning - long time at large - escaped after pressure from wife needing support - committed no offence while at large - wife died from drug overdose.
Evidence of good rehabilitation. |
Walford
(21)
NSW CCA [200]
23.4.2001 | Escape | PG | 7 mins | FT 4m | AD | serving sentence for robbery in company | Saw open gate at minimum security centre and walked out - picked up almost immediately.
Female - Aboriginal with traumatic background, drug addiction, raped. |
Barton
NSW CCA [233]
14.6.2002 | Escape | | | 12m | AA
3m | serving sentence for BES | Escape related to domestic situation - intellectual disability not made clear at sentence |
Smith
(52)
NSW CCA [69]
16.3.2004 | Escape | PG | 5 days | 2y
NPP 18m | AD | Serving sentence for BE with intent to kidnap | Escaped from Goulburn gaol with intention of proving innocence in relation to sentence being served – forced cell bars open with metal device made in metal shop. |
Pham
NSW CCA [94]
22.3.2005 | Escape | PG | 9 months | 18m
NPP 12m | Crown AA
Date of commencement of sentence brought forward by 4m | Serving balance of parole for Agg AR | Escaped from Auburn Hospital – committed offences in Vic and served sentence – sentence for escape effectively subsumed by parole to be served – judge inappropriately took into account deportation following sentence – error in not taking into account that parole revocation order had not been rescinded at time of sentence |
