Iraq admits Irish aid worker’s killer escaped a year ago

THE convicted Iraqi mastermind of the killing of Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan escaped from prison almost one year ago, a government minister admitted for the first time yesterday.

Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi, sentenced to life last year for Hassan’s murder, busted out of Central Baghdad Prison, formerly known as the infamous Abu Ghraib jail, on September 10, 2009, the same day a riot broke out there.

Judicial officials have in recent months said Rawi was “missing,” forcing several postponements of his retrial for the killing.