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David McLean

The cunning inmates who escaped Edinburgh's Saughton during jail football match

Thirty years ago, a manhunt was underway for five "violent" convicts who escaped Edinburgh's Saughton Prison.

The daring break-out, which occurred at around 8.15pm on May 25, 1993, came about as a football game was being played between inmates and a visiting local pub team on a pitch near the jail's steel mesh perimeter fence.

During the match, five prisoners managed to slip through a hole they made in the security fence, without any of the half a dozen prison officers and security personnel noticing.

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