AN INMATE who escaped six times in 25 days and returned hours later undetected to his cell has done the Victorian prisons security system a favour.
Daniel Matthew Wilson’s knack of slipping discreetly from Fulham Correctional Centre, a medium-level security facility in Gippsland, and back caused an overhaul of policy, procedure and design.
His ability to manipulate an aluminium window frame and replace its screws and then leave through a hole cut in security wire were the crucial first stages of the getaways.
Senior Constable Danielle Cameron, prosecuting, told Melbourne Magistrates Court Wilson told a friend who once asked what he was doing out of prison that he was having a “holiday from jail”.
Wilson pleaded guilty to six charges of escape and of bringing mobile phones and marijuana into a prison. Magistrate Annabel Hawkins jailed him for six months, with three months to be served concurrently and three months to be served if he breached parole if granted it in January.