AlQa'dah 04, 1436, August 19, 2015, SPA -- A prisoner who escaped Australia's highest security prison by tying bedsheets together has been caught after a car chase, police said Wednesday, according to dpa. Stephen Jamieson, 28, serving 12 years for armed robbery, made his jailbreak in broad daylight Tuesday from the prison in Goulburn in New South Wales about 160 kilometres south-west of Sydney. In a scene that could have been out of a movie, Jamieson threw the tied sheets over a 5-metre-high wall and climbed over, police said. A pillow tied to his stomach helped him get over the barbed wire. Police said Jamieson was spotted 12 hours later 20 kilometres away in a stolen car and arrested early Wednesday after a dramatic 100-kilometre police chase. Embarrassed prison authorities have launched an inquiry into how Jamieson could make such a brazen classic escape from Australia's highest security prison, which holds serial killers, terrorists and other criminals.
