Robber in 200ft waste chute plunge

A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building leaped into a rubbish chute and survived a 200ft fall into the basement.

Robin Gutheridge, 26, plunged from the 21st floor of the Clinton Plaza Apartments in Syracuse, New York, a few streets from the Chase Bank Branch he had robbed earlier, said Sgt Tom Connellan.