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He was able to enter a ventilation shaft, crawl along it, enter the exercise yard, then cross the roof before lowering himself down the prison wall.

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Find sources: "John McVicar"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( February 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)John McVicar (21 March 1940 – 6 September 2022) was a British journalist and convicted one-time armed robber who escaped from prison. Next day, as a massive police hunt was mobilised and TV crews and newspaper men rushed to Durham, McVicar kept away from the roads and followed the course of the river and railway for seven miles, finally reaching Chester-le-Street. McVicar ***½ (1980, Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry) – Classic Movie Review 9955 Paradise *** (1991, Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch) – Classic Movie Review 12,702 | Derek Winnert on Le Grand Chemin [The Grand Highway] **** (1987, Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Vanessa Guedj, Christine Pascal, Pascale Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 12,701

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Durham Prison was seen as one of the most secure, but even it let a few prisoners slip through its fingers.

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Son of John McVicar jailed for 16 years for carrying out armed raids on the run". Liverpool Echo. 20 August 2010. a b c Artsrunik, Valentina. "JohnMcVicar.com - Biographical Notes". John McVicar. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008 . Retrieved 19 February 2008. McVicar’s sentence was 23 years, increased to 26 years. The jail is Durham Prison. All the prison scenes were filmed in Ireland, in the abandoned Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, the same location used for The Italian Job and Sitting Target. The latter half of the film is set in London after McVicar has escaped from Durham. Here he re-establishes relationships with his wife and young son and he eventually decides to try to escape from his life of crime by trying to fund a new life in Canada.We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] **** (1985, Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli, Anaïs Jeanneret) – Classic Movie Review 11,527 | Derek Winnert on Le Dossier 51 [Dossier 51] **** (1978, François Marthouret, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau) – Classic Movie Review 12,697 In October 1961, the Government started to take action against prison escapes and decided Durham would hold some of the country's most difficult prisoners and particularly those prone to escape. A specially-prepared wing, described as "a prison within a prison" was developed. It would become the famous E-Wing and was thought to be escape-proof.

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In 1998, McVicar lost a libel action brought by sprinter Linford Christie over his claim that Christie was a "steroid athlete." [3] The Jill Dando murder [ edit ]

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McVicar was born in London on 21 March 1940. [4] The son of shopkeepers, George and Diane McVicar, in 1965 he fathered a son, Russell, conceived with his girlfriend, Shirley Wilshire, while he was on the run from HMP Parkhurst. Shirley and McVicar married in 1972, but she divorced him before his final release from prison in 1978. [5] Russell McVicar became estranged from his father but followed in his criminal footsteps, taking up armed robbery and prison escapes. In May 1998 he was sentenced to 15 years for armed robbery, but escaped in 2004 and remained at large for eight years before being recaptured in 2012. [6] [7] [8] In 2002, McVicar published a book about the murder of broadcaster Jill Dando, Dead On Time. In it, he paints Barry George as a sophisticated liar, trying to appear too stupid to carry out a difficult mission. The book appeared after George's first appeal was rejected. (The conviction was overturned in 2008, and George was released.) McVicar subsequently wrote Who Killed Jill? You Decide, in which he examines the British jury system. This second book is purged of the chapters recounting 'personal experiences' which McVicar claims were the product of poetic license for the most part. [ citation needed] Personal life and death [ edit ] a b c Campbell, Duncan (26 September 2022). "John McVicar obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 September 2022.