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We don't know We had no big fears of the prison officers resistance. I mean, it's the furthest person who Tackle him on with a gun I don't know Okay, there's no time of the blood on Captain wispicott Oh Wait, where is this what language are they speaking? We say For a period of a year ten months the M60 had been Frequently used by the IRA. It was used in Several operations prior to us being caught that day vision are more Scraptic the public is vision are mere both scrapped inching the mountain commersage and you're a fur Arm the brad and you know gonna show August Colton. I didn't have a lot to know Agasson M60 gang in Isha fan after the drill room varu Or in touch or foho anyway, a quarter of reason more rumbling a notch Coney you know The first one that come in order was a very historical Victorian prison You know almost smelled the steel atmosphere of prison. It was not a hole. It was like an archaic prison So this was a prison prison, none of this fancy posh stuff we be seeing now with seven star reviews, this is a real prison. The mother watch sounds, you heard it was echoed down the wing, guard banging open a door with a key, crashing out the door shut, the grills opening up. When I think back, it's a kind of a sense of the depression, you know, I mean prison is not a nice place. So the best way to keep their spirits away was to look for a lack of security and spread the spot, okay. I was on the legal visit with my solicitor and the screw came in from a gate that I didn't know existed and he said to me that I also had a personal visit, which I wasn't expecting. I was on the legal visit with my solicitor and the screw came in from the door shut. I was on the legal visit with my solicitor and the screw came in from the gate. The principal was on the legal visit with my solicitor and the screw came in from the door shut. I was on the legal visit with my solicitor and the screw came in from the door shut. All it takes is one little piece of relaxation. The screw was the keys, the gates was on the inside of the visits. So if we could overpower them, we could take the keys and we could open the gates and get around ourselves. Go for it. I looked over the gates, I looked at the way I would come out. At the end of the entry was the front gates of the jail. I realised here was the way out. He says, that's quite the front gate. With that particular time, I thought it was crazy, I said, what, you can't, you can't go, you can't go out the front gate. I don't know, that's right though, nobody's expected you to try to walk out the front gates. That's brazen. You know what I'm saying, that's brazen. You gotta find an alternative route like you can't be that, you know what I'm saying. So it's smart to think like that. I don't condone it. Every actor, they say in Cholus, in Taidja, in Faishnish, it's Taughti, Marnil, it's the Diniak Urlushi, that's in Radekarra Greek. So every time you get out of there, you mentally survey the corridor. How many screws was going to be on the visits on the particular day? Who had the keys? What type of screws the wore? How many of us would be needed to take control? The corridors of the visit room and the holding cell, the reception area, that's where the PO, he was the principal officer. Has any like escaped, been escaped, because anybody escaped recently, because I would imagine security is overly tight now after they didn't get a helicopter, first and foremost, then they didn't get this. Who was in charge of the whole block? That's the whole area where we had to take over. But it's clear that the plan is to put the whole block in place, so that we can get out of there and get out of there as soon as possible. And as you can see, there are six of us in the corridor, and we're ready to go. Where they got transferred is one? We were convicted, another way he was going to go through his calculator, how many years he was going to give us, and that's when he knew that the following Friday, we would be on our way down to the hits blocks, on the blanket protest, the hunger strike was already on, four of our comrades had already died. We had one week to do the escape. If you should go look at him called Jalla Dassil, it's the instant he hits blocks, and you will find the killer. Yeah, when you got nothing to lose, you fighting for everything at the end of the day. You get what I'm saying? That was deep. When you got nothing to lose, you fighting for everything in this scenario, and an escape scenario. We got nothing to lose, whether we make it out or we don't make it out. We serve in life. But if we make it out, we got everything to gain. As soon as Jalla Dassil and Jalla Dassil were released, he was released from prison and he was released from prison, and his wife, Agri, and her son, Lenni Lidori. How the hell, wait, go away. And you were released from prison. The two guns and their possession, and the eight of them... And as soon as Agri and Lidori and Lenni Lidori were released, they were released. They all arranged meetings at the same time with the lords to get into that room, okay? The weapons were used on the escape were two small automatic 25s. A pistol that would fit into the palm of your hand, create a powerful weapon at the same time. And as Campbell planned it out, the lords had blocked the doors of the lords' doors, and Eddie Borgier, who was in charge of the escape, was released. So everything was ready. I had a moustache. I kept the moustache open till that morning, so I shaved it just before I went out. It was just the sense of the new that we had the word of uniform. It made the attention away from me. The next thing you know, a guard came in and he says, Joe, you've got a visit. I just remember that going down the wing and I had the gun in my boot. So when he was searching down, I would tighten myself up. So when he fell down the boot, he maybe just thought it was part of the bone structure. But I was like, the sweat was running down my back, because he might say, you have to take that boot off. He gets down there and he feels around the boot, and he feels around the other boot where the gun was. These security guards were that thick. Like, what's happening right now? Bro, you searched this man. First and foremost, you let these dudes look at every piece of direction you was walking. Y'all didn't clock them looking at y'all and seeing what was going on and getting the blueprints in their head or anything. And then he starts up and he says, OK, good luck. And me, right, that's that over. At least we got the gun and we're on our way. Nervous inside, but you have a job to do, and that's what was important. And after that there are the adrenaline, all the rehearsals, you know, the insane domain that I want to get out of here. Everybody was in position, ready to go. I was in with my solicitor. I told him that I had to go into the next leg of the business to talk to some of the other lads. The solicitor was looking at me because I was talking about anything but the case. I looked into one of the sales where there was three of the other prisoners with the one solicitor and said to them, right, let's go. I look at the solicitor. Hey, the solicitor looking like, OK, hold on, wait, wait. Well, actually go ahead because when y'all get caught, I will need to pay even more at that rate. They committed a sale. I produced the weapon. Pete produced his weapons. We moved into positions. This is an IRA operation. Everybody here is on their rest. Anybody resists, force will be used. What? They said this is an IRA operation. If anybody resists, force will be used. I can rewind. That's fine. Anybody resists, IRA operation. Everybody here is on their rest. Anybody resists, force will be used. Those six holding cells, so we put all the guards in one. The other lads in this case, they were going to arrest other guards. They were going to open doors to secure the black. One of them arrived at the door and said, you have to come with me. And I said, no, I'm not going anywhere with you. And he then said, care and provisionally IRA, you will be hurt. I said, well, if you tell me I'm not going to be hurt, that's far enough. We'll go. But at that point I had absolutely no idea what of anything was going on. And we were put into a large holding cell, which had other prisoners, other solicitors, and nobody knew what was happening. So it was all chaotic. Even when I look back at it, I can't precisely say who was where and where it was what. That's just the least figures walking by and guards tied up. It was like Travagas for it. I would say there was maybe seven or eight screws. I put them all in different cells. And within seconds, I'd control the end of the legal visits. OK. And you all put the uniforms on. So it was just a matter of time before I knew what was going on. But I had no idea what was going on. If the situation arose and we were forced to use the weapons, we would use them. As I got close to him, starting off with the weapon, he tried to make a go for me. So as planned out as you'd think this would have been, it sounds like it was not. It was just moving. Maybe it was like a chaotic, chaotic... What is the word I'm looking for? Like a chaotic calm about it? I don't know. I fired a shot at that stage. It's too early. It could very well have been an operation. One of the lads hit him with a baton that had been taken off the screws. He was immobilized. To say the least. One point, a prison warder was dragged in and dunked on the floor. He was bleeding. He seemed to be unconscious. I then thought, God, this is going to turn into some sort of hostage situation because I could never ever have envisaged that anybody could have escaped. Did I watch this? I didn't watch this particular one, but I feel like I have maybe something else. No, I wasn't. In a brief moment, we were just looking for a safe place to hide. So Tony Sloan quickly got close off to the sitter, basically just a coat of scarf and a briefcase, and the power glasses, I believe. You've got to take the glasses. It completes the look. Everything went wrong because there was more guards coming under the block, which meant we had to tie up more guards. A wood ring, which meant there was another guard and everybody had the head. The door was locked and somebody would jump out and grab the guard. And this is like something out of some film or a cartoon. The phone rang. Was there no surveillance CCTV or nothing in there? The phone, everybody looked at this phone, and you'd obviously like on the cartoon the phone shakes. That's shocking. Everybody's shocked with it. Nobody knew what to do. If you lift the phone up, they're going to ask who's on the phone. Maybe you have to use a code. You've got to answer it, though. Or not. If someone may be coming down, we'll move quickly. You know, let's start to move out. That was like the third part of the escape, and that was walk across the courtyard and secure the first gate. We were pretending to escort this lawyer out across the courtyard. And I read across almost 15, 16 guards. There was a new shift of guards coming on. That was the longest walk for me. And I thought it was only 25 yards, but I felt like it was, like, three miles. If you look at it this way, there's a lot of chemistry and a lot of fun, and there's a lot of fun going on. And there's a lot of fun going on. Like, that's a lot. Watchtowers, do they have snipers up there? Or, like, whoa, whoa. When I got out of the yard and went out, I thought it was like a barge or something like that. I thought it was like that. We had, like, a fence out guard doing the door. He was awesome for posks and code. Oh! Next to him, we're only going to do a few grinding, big, hour-less arson. We're really going to get a rehearse, and we're going to learn how to do it. And I just said we need to get out this house, this solicitor's wife, this is having a baby or something out there. I was just getting in the conversation. I just wanted him to open the door. So once I heard the click, I knew the gate was open. As that gate opened, the rest of us had moved up the entry and started moving the single failure rate across the yard, and one by one went into the gates. And that's been the whole everything. See, these guards was moving pretty loose. Talking about, talking about there's codes and keys and all of this stuff, you had the gate having a laugh. Yeah, his wife was burning. You click it. Doesn't mean you follow protocol. You hear me? He went up in the yard because of the guards, and he looked at something wrong. Because everything was very, very quick. Is it a rat? Are they taking over the prison? Is it a protest? Is it an escape? The screws on the outside started to make a move towards us. I produced a weapon. Again, this is an IRA operation. We had to stay back. We had a weapon fire, and they all started to stay back. We had to leave the land, because it was very cold. It was freezing in the air. When we went to the hospital, there was a lot of blood in the blood. And then we checked the blood, and there was a lot of blood. And then we were out on the second last gate. I just grabbed them by his lapels. He said, give me that key. The images of this middle-aged guard just holding on to this key saying that he can't give me the key, they had to kind of wake up to the reality that that key was going to be in our hands. Yeah, what you mean? I can't give it to you. Man, this ain't my life. You better go ahead and take this key, sir. You have to firearm. I am just a warden of the state or whatever you... I'm just a worker. Take it. Take it. But they can't get far. There is no way they could get far, though. Because by the time they hit that gate or whatever, all the schools had known. And the alarm was rang and regular police was called probably. You know what I'm saying? All of that stuff was done. So that means helicopters was in the air. You're not getting away. You're in the middle of nowhere. This is Ireland. So prisons out here, most prisons are in the middle of nowhere. So if you escape, you just gonna be a prisoner in a cornfield somewhere. Out there, in a town almost, you can get lost a little bit, kind of, right? We got them to open the gate. So I think I've seen Robert happen to go in with all these guards, because they were coming at us with buttons and stuff. I actually didn't have any time for that because I had to get this sort of key. And the only other gate was the gate that was actually on the Cromman Road and the screw was on this side again. I asked the guard for the key. He wouldn't give it over. He actually fainted a bit and as he fell, the keys went down with him and we were asked, what key is it? Look how that gate opened while the key was still stopped at the screw. Did you lock yourself in? I can see the gate sort of closed over and I'm saying to myself, is that a snap shut gate? But it was like a slow motion sort of thing about getting to the gate to the Cromman, to get out. Once we opened the gate, the traffic, and I was like, my God, I couldn't believe it. When you look at it from the outside, it's like you're in a park and you're getting close to your own bridge. And when you get to the bridge, it's like you're walking and you're getting close to your own bridge and you're getting close to your own bridge. Right, see what I'm saying? So we knew once we got out the front. People were already, like, alerted to what was going on at this point. Yeah, we had been around maybe 30, 40 yards, maybe. And I got, there was a little small wall we could open. That's where the two cars was. When I tried to open it, the door wasn't open. That's when the cops in the army, I think, were all over us. That's when the shooting, everybody was shooting at each other. The cops came to the wall and they immediately opened fire. The adrenaline was flying and, you know, while there was bullets, you know, flying all over the place, that was important. They were throwing fire. And the cops were on the other side and they were firing too. Because the bullets were flying and they were. And as you're kind of dropping and waving and trying to look over the scene, you couldn't get in the car. That option was out. Neither of the cars? At that particular time, I just knew I just knew that we were caught. I don't know what it was. I just put my hands up and said, Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I'm a police officer. I can see the confusion in people's eyes. Once I seen somebody confused with her brother, that's when I ran. I went to the west. I didn't know where I was. The police were in the car and they were throwing fire. Okay, so they got in one car? Okay. They were sitting in the middle of the road going right where we go and at that particular point someone was coming out of the house to get into the car and we went, happy days. My car now. He said, Irish Republican Army, we're taking your car. To say it, on the Shankar Road under UVF, stronghold. I actually didn't go down too well. I would imagine I didn't go down too well. You in the Ops area. You in your Ops area. That mine. I don't know nothing. You in your Ops areas. We had to force the car off the person. The search for the Ape. Men centered on the Republican areas of West Belfast where the security chiefs believe the wanted men are still in hiding. He used that command and says that they had men out of escape from common road jail. So as of right now with three minutes left in this documentary, all eight of them or all eight of them are on the run fully escaped in vehicles. There's a big relief that the rest of the odds were not so meted. The thing was when I think back of it if that door had been open I would have jumped in the back with maybe Anslo and Biggie McKee and then we would have been all dead. So whatever the circumstances of why those back doors weren't open probably see it all our lives. That's them in the business. Wait, wait, I looked the way it got there. Okay. Okay. So what the judge done was he actually went ahead with the sentence and abstention as they call it he sent us without us actually being in the court. Mr. Justice Houghton as he then was read out his judgment and then proceeded to sentence the people in their absence. To be sentenced in your absence is basically an empty chair. I have never, ever come across it. That is the only time. Yeah, I never heard that either. That's just motivation to stay to not get caught, right? My career is a solicitor that I have come across. So it was a great day because the woman in celebration got me like a big steak with onions on it for the six o'clock news and she got me a black version with ace in it, you know. I told us what sentence is we'll be given the more current what sentence. We got you, Robert Campbell, sentence you to life imprisonment with a recommendation to serve no less than 30 years. You would have to know why bro on the couch eating good old dinner. The layout of the Crumb and Road prison, the security that was there, you would have to know all that to appreciate what they actually did. The number of gets a good three out onto the Crumb and Road prison, you know. It's been a million years since I was born and it's been a long time since I was born. Cinderella, I appreciate the sub. I appreciate you. Teresa, despite the violence during the escape, no prison officers or police suffered long-term injuries. Seven of the escapes went into hiding in the south but were re-arrested under. So what about that one? And then it was flooded. And he got up out of there you know. Very interesting. Very interesting. That's a good one. T.L.L. leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post.