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Prison Escapes Talk

Patch Places 5-6 Grays Brewery Yard, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6QR

  • 16 Sep 2025
  • In person
  • Pre-booking required

Hear about prison escape attempts from the past with Lindsay Whitehouse.

Prison Escape - Whenever a prisoner escapes from custody, something has  gone wrong. It could be a failure of technology, equipment, human error, building and procedural design, or staff corruption. I guide my audience through a real life escape from a prison where I worked. I have an intimate first hand knowledge of what happened, when, where, how and why. Four prisoners escaped in a single operation. I highlight why that story did not hit the national news headlines. I talk my audience through the whole escape plan from conception to execution, which was run just like a military operation. Perhaps that is not so surprising, because the leader of the escapers was also a soldier serving in the British Army. 
We look it how it all ended, and the supreme irony of karma for one of the escapers.

Timings & Tours

Tuesday 16 September:
1900

Location & directions

Patch Places 5-6 Grays Brewery Yard, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6QR

Directions:
Patch Places is next door to Nando's

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking required
Booking conditions:
Book via our web site
Booking website:
https://www.chelmsfordhod.co.uk
Booking opens:
01 Aug 2025 12:00 AM
Booking closes:
15 Sep 2025 12:00 AM

Additional information

Max no of people per tour:
50
Est. tour duration:
1 hour(s)

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