On Friday night, 40-year-old Brian Bo Larsen escaped from Vridsløselille state prison in Albertslund, a suburb west of Copenhagen.
Kim Svenningsen, head of security for the Copenhagen West Regional Police told TV2 that Larsen used a hacksaw to saw the bars off his cell window and two rope ladders, one to get on top of the roof and one to get down, for his breakout. He called the escape “risky” as it is a 15-metre drop from the roof to the ground.
“We received notification on Saturday morning at 8:20, but we do not know when he was last seen,” Svenningsen said.
Svenningsen urges people to contact the police if Larsen is spotted and not to attempt to apprehend him. Police is investigated the escape and have begun an extensive search for the escapee.
Larsen was serving a seven-year stint for armed robbery.
Not the first time
This is neither Larsen’s first escape nor his first escape from the same prison.
In 1995, he and 11 other inmates escaped from Vridsløselille when a large truck crashed into the prison’s perimeter wall, creating a large hole out of which the prisoners could make their bust.
And in 2004, while on duty to fill up a container with leaves, Larsen jumped into the container as well when it was ready to be hauled off. When the truck driver came to empty the container outside the prison, Larsen fled.
Larsen has escaped 22 times from prisons, detention centres and police stations.
