Prisoner who had been digging hole with a spoon for 18 years, let out early 

A Prisoner who had been tirelessly digging out an escape route with a spoon for 18 years, has been let out early, it has emerged.

Dwayne Campbell had been convicted for stealing a swan in 2001 and was sentenced for life. It was shortly after he started his gruelling dig which would have concluded in a couple of months, except he was let out early.

He told us, ‘I’m fuming. Eighteen years I’ve been doing that. Missed bingo nights, pool tournaments and I missed the night that the lads slashed a nonce on B wing.’

‘I had to use my contact in the kitchen, Harry Cockaye, to give me a new spoon every couple of weeks which isn’t easy, spoons are much sought after. Harry was going to help me work on the swan project after release.’

‘I had been digging using a poster of Linda Lusardi to cover the hole. You think that poster was easy to get!?’

Dwayne was planning to escape and hide in Wales but now there is no need, he said, ‘They’ve given me a flat there now, I’m trying to get a message to Harry Cockaye to not bother coming.’