Well that was fun while it lasted. i was soooooo invested lmao.
I assumed early on he was just a opportunist who had probably noticed this lorry turning up to drop food every day, maybe they were never many prison guards around at this point and he started thinking how easy it would be to simply hide under it. Came up with an idea inside his cell and that was it, no real plan once he had actually escaped and basically just winged it. hes 21, a bit dorky looking with very minimal basic army training. the sensalationist media just hyped up his 'trained solider' status and 'links to iran' for clicks. I'm seeing so many people on twitter wondering what the big deal of finding him was for though.... i mean isnt it kinda obvious? the UK can not let a 21yr old kid (well anyone really) escape from prison, with 150 plus highly trained counter-terrorism officers, mi5, mi6 all looking for him and failing to do so? what would that look like? to current prisoners, to the public, to the world even!! it was to save face obviously, not that hes a particularly dangerous individual. its no wonder they threw all the resources they had plus the kitchen sink at it.
theres a lot of talk about wandsworth being grossly understaffed and this being the reason he was able to escape... could it not be down to sheer incompetence? people failing to do their jobs correctly? the security guards checking the lorry on the way in/out, maybe they didnt really do a thorougher job like they are supposed to? quick glance with a mirror and gave it the go ahead to leave. we got to remember, its extremely rare that something like this would even happen, its not like they would be expecting it, it was a huge lorry, you would have to kneel down and really have a good look to make sure and maybe they just gave it a quick glance with their mirror sticks and flagged it off. it might have been really that simple.
i do wonder where he got the sleeping bag from and the waitrose cool bag full of food and drinks. this implies he at least had some low level help.
a bike would be easy to steal maybe, some clothes off someones washing line, but i noticed he was wearing a grey pair of adidas trainers in the pictures of his arrest. shoes would be harder to simply steal out of someones garden (doubt they'd be lying about) same goes for the sleeping bag and the convenient bag of food & drink.... so yeah. questions are where he got those items from. i would guess he went to a friends house and they helped him with some essentials. if so, they should be expecting a knock at the door soon!
