Convicts ‘had no choice’ but to escape

Two Romanian brothers are suspected of escaping from a prison by climbing over a 9m-plus perimeter wall after leaving behind a note saying “sorry, we had no choice”.

Convicts ‘had no choice’ but to escape

Toader and Vasile Feier were incarcerated in a low-security section of Castlerea Prison, known as The Grove, in Co Roscommon.

The area allows inmates to walk up to the boundary wall. Sources suspect accomplices on the outside drove up to the wall and assisted the brothers’ escape.

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