Shawshank II: Winslet stars in foiled Limerick prison plot

OSCAR winner Kate Winslet helped two prisoners re-enact the plot of The Shawshank Redemption at Limerick Prison yesterday but, this time, there was no Hollywood ending.

Two men serving life sentences for murder used a poster of the starlet to cover up a window grill they had hacksawed through.

Just like in the Tim Robbins/Morgan Freeman film, a poster was used to conceal the escape route, but where Raquel Welch succeeded, Ms Winslet failed.