Prison escapees used contractor’s tools

The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security US prison apparently used tools stored there by contractors before returning them to their toolboxes after each night’s work, a prosecutor said.

District attorney Andrew Wylie also said that Joyce Mitchell, the prison tailoring shop instructor charged with helping the men escape, had agreed to pick them up in her car but backed out at the last minute because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

“Basically, when it was go-time and it was the actual day of the event, I do think she got cold feet and realised: ‘What am I doing?’ ” said Wylie.