Inmates mass walk out

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Updated March 14, 2008 08:54:42

744A loop-hole in Vanuatu's new Correctional Legislation has been blamed as a major contributing factor to three mass escapes from the main prison in Port Vila so far this year. Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Arthur Caulton says, inadequate correctional services resources were also a problem. Mr Caulton says that by late on Thursday, a total of 21 inmates were still at large after the latest escape. He says among those who've escaped is a detainee who was charged in January with brutally murdering an Australian woman at her home outside Port Vila.

Presenter: Sam Seke
Speaker: Vanuatu's Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Arthur Caulton

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