Carry on Shawshank! Bungling inmates plotted escape replicating hit film... only to find themselves trapped inside prison walls

As bids for freedom go, it was no Great Escape.

After hatching a plot to tunnel their way out of jail, prisoners David Crossfield and Jordan Morgan set about digging a hole in their cell wall.

Using a metal drawer runner, the pair spent hours scraping away at mortar and hid the rubble and dust in a pair of old tracksuit pants in a plot described as ‘Colditz’ by a judge.

But, Preston Crown Court heard, they hadn’t done their homework.

Their tunnel would not have given them freedom, instead it lead to an enclosed area inside the prison walls.       Read Here