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Wronguy

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Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture
#7618032 - 11/10/07 09:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/Prisoner-walked-out-ofjail-to.3449718.jp
Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture
An armed robber who escaped from prison to get away from its drug culture has been sent back to jail with a longer sentence. Damien Beevor, 23, from Corby, walked out of Category D open prison HMP Sudbury, in Derbyshire, where he was serving a four-year sentence for involvement in an attempted robbery of Paulerspury service station, near Towcester on the A5, on July 5 last year.
William Falshaw, prosecuting at Northampton Crown Court on Monday, said Beevor was sentenced in September last year and was transferred from HMP Onley, near Daventry, to HMP Sudbury in June.
But on August 8, he went missing, having walked out unnoticed, only to hand himself into Corby Police Station five days later.
Mr Falshaw said: “Onley is a closed prison and had allowed him to stop his drug habit. However, upon arriving at the open prison he fell back to his habit and so jumped over the fence and went to Milton Keynes. Having cleared his head, as he put it, he decided to hand himself in.”
Passing sentence, Judge Richard Bray said: “I give you credit for pleading guilty and for handing yourself in. I bear in mind the mitigation but there has to be a custodial sentence here.
“You just can’t go jumping over fences at an open prison.”
Beevor, of Lowery Close, Radbrook Rise, Corby, who pleaded guilty to escape, was to be released from prison in August next year but must now serve a further eight months after that.
Ranjeet Dulay, mitigating, said Beevor had escaped as drugs were readily available in HMP Sudbury and he wanted to get free from them before handing himself in.
She said: “It was a cry for help but he accepts it was very wrong. He escaped in order to make sure his habit did not spiral out of control.”
During the robbery in July 2005, a man brandishing a large knife had threatened the petrol station’s cashier, demanding the takings from the till. But when the cashier refused, the armed raider fled in a getaway car. A witness followed the two raiders and reported their number plate to the police, leading to Beevor’s arrest.
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kidaihuan
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: Wronguy]
#7618104 - 11/10/07 10:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Escaping jail so that he can escape drugs.
That's a screwed up system.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: kidaihuan]
#7618119 - 11/10/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hurray for the USA!!
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: KilroyMilosevik]
#7618203 - 11/10/07 10:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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And of course, their solution is to keep him in that prison for an extra 8 months.
God Bless America.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: flower_child]
#7618338 - 11/10/07 11:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Umm... hello? This was in the UK. 
God bless the UK?
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: Plok]
#7618667 - 11/10/07 12:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah, that's what I was thinking. I can't think of anywhere in the USA where you can find towns named Derbyshire, Sudbury, and Paulerspury.
On a side note, his initial arrest was for armed robbery. I don't think tacking on another 8 mos. for escape is too much.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: Jeebies]
#7619087 - 11/10/07 02:31 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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He lacks the self-control and discipline to maintain a healthy lifestyle and income, and decides to go with armed robbery. He lacks the self-control to tame his drug habits (which, presumably, were no longer addictions), and he also lacks the self-control and maturity to find an adult-like solution the his problem. I understand how his situation could be difficult for him, but I also have a hard time feeling bad for someone who consistently does whatever he feels like doing with no regard for the obvious consequences.
I agree that many people in prisons (in America, at least) don't necessarily belong there, but I can agree with the UK government on this one, that this man needs some time to learn how to learn self-control and some healthy lifestyle strategies, while keeping the general public safe from his seemingly selfish and careless decision-making ability.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: shroom_ninja]
#7619226 - 11/10/07 03:20 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm honestly not sure if I believe this story.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7619747 - 11/10/07 05:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm with madtown on this one.
I'm not sure I'd buy into the whole "i was trying to escape drugs" bit.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: drwatson]
#7620240 - 11/10/07 08:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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attorney: So man, you just up and left?
convict: yeah, jail is lame, homie.
attorney: repeat after me, "I left to get away from drugs in our horrible, horrible, jail environments."
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: shroom_ninja]
#7620378 - 11/10/07 09:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think thats probably more along the lines of what actually went down.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7621002 - 11/11/07 02:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Then why after five days did he come back to the police station and say he was ready to be back in?
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: kidaihuan]
#7621518 - 11/11/07 10:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would guess it's because he's a crackhead and was probably coming down or something because he couldn't get more crack and freaked out. Maybe he was thinking, "there's crack back in jail so I'll just go back." But that is assuming his claim was true about the prison which probably is not.
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Re: Prisoner walked out of jail to flee drug culture [Re: shroom_ninja]
#7621539 - 11/11/07 10:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i fully sympathize with this guy... you guys are so skeptical it's obvious you don't understand addiction. i'm getting pretty sick of the part of the shroomery community who has eaten shrooms twice, done a couple other drugs, but then sits back and feels proud over all other users... the guy did what he had to do, if that means leaving jail then so be it. as someone said above, it's the system that's fucked... i find it amazing he went to this extent to get away from drugs... that's self-control and that is self-determinaton if you ask me.
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